Spread: a measure of the size of metric spaces

DOI10.1142/S0218195915500120MaRDI QIDQ3459048zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Simon Willerton

Publication date 30 December 2015

Published in International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2300

zbMATH Keywords

diversitymetric spacessize

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric geometry (51F99) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

Abstract: Motivated by Leinster-Cobbold measures of biodiversity, the notion of the spread of a finite metric space is introduced. This is related to Leinster's magnitude of a metric space. Spread is generalized to infinite metric spaces equipped with a measure and is calculated for spheres and straight lines. For Riemannian manifolds the spread is related to the volume and total scalar curvature. A notion of scale-dependent dimension is introduced and seen, numerically, to be close to the Hausdorff dimension for approximations to certain fractals.

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