The quasi-hyperbolicity constant of a metric space

DOI10.7153/MIA-2021-24-73MaRDI QIDQ5030403zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George C. Dragomir, Andrew Nicas

Publication date 17 February 2022

Published in Mathematical Inequalities & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04440

zbMATH Keywords

Banach spacesquasi-isometryrough isometrysnowflake metric\(\delta\)-hyperbolicGromov hyperboli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) General theory of distance geometry (51K05) Metric geometry (51F99)

Abstract: We introduce the quasi-hyperbolicity constant of a metric space, a rough isometry invariant that measures how a metric space deviates from being Gromov hyperbolic. This number, for unbounded spaces, lies in the closed interval $[1,2]$. The quasi-hyperbolicity constant of an unbounded Gromov hyperbolic space is equal to one. For a CAT$(0)$-space, it is bounded from above by $sqrt2$. The quasi-hyperbolicity constant of a Banach space that is at least two dimensional is bounded from below by $sqrt2$, and for a non-trivial $L_p$-space it is exactly $max{2}^{1/p},2^{1-1/p}$. If $0<alpha<1$ then the quasi-hyperbolicity constant of the $alpha$-snowflake of any metric space is bounded from above by $2^{a}lpha$. We give an exact calculation in the case of the $alpha$-snowflake of the Euclidean real line.

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