Embeddings of negative-type metrics and an improved approximation to generalized sparsest cut

  • Authors:
  • Shuchi Chawla;Anupam Gupta;Harald Räcke

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;DIMAP and University of Warwick

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this article, we study metrics of negative type, which are metrics (V, d) such that &sqrt;d is an Euclidean metric; these metrics are thus also known as ℓ2-squared metrics. We show how to embed n-point negative-type metrics into Euclidean space ℓ2 with distortion D = O(log3/4n). This embedding result, in turn, implies an O(log3/4k)-approximation algorithm for the Sparsest Cut problem with nonuniform demands. Another corollary we obtain is that n-point subsets of ℓ1 embed into ℓ2 with distortion O(log3/4 n).