A problem on distance matrices of subsets of the Hamming cube

DOI10.1090/BPROC/122zbMATH Open1497.46027arXiv2109.07052OpenAlexW3199237576WikidataQ114094370 ScholiaQ114094370MaRDI QIDQ5072246FDOQ5072246

R. Wolf, Ian Doust

Publication date: 27 April 2022

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $D$ denote the distance matrix for an $n+1$ point metric space $(X,d)$. In the case that $X$ is an unweighted metric tree, the sum of the entries in $D^{-1}$ is always equal to $2/n$. Such trees can be considered as affinely independent subsets of the Hamming cube $H_n$, and it was conjectured that the value $2/n$ was minimal among all such subsets. In this paper we confirm this conjecture and give a geometric interpretation of our result which applies to any subset of $H_n$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07052

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices (15A45) Embeddings of discrete metric spaces into Banach spaces; applications in topology and computer science (46B85) Distance geometry (51K99)

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