Nonembeddability theorems via Fourier analysis

  • Authors:
  • Subhash Khot;Assaf Naor

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology;Microsoft Corporation Theory Group, Microsoft Research

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '05 Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Various new nonembeddability results (mainly into L1) are proved via Fourier analysis. In particular, it is shown that the Edit Distance on {0,1}^d has L1 distortion (\log d)^frac{1}{2}^{} - (1). We also give new lower bounds on the L1 distortion of quotients of the discrete hypercube under group actions, and the transportation cost (Earthmover) metric.