Compression bounds for Lipschitz maps from the Heisenberg group to L 1

Jeff Cheeger, Bruce Kleiner, Assaf Naor

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Abstract

We prove a quantitative bi-Lipschitz non-embedding theorem for the Heisenberg group with its Carnot-Carathéodory metric and apply it to give a lower bound on the integrality gap of the Goemans-Linial semidefinite relaxation of the sparsest cut problem.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)291-373
Number of pages83
JournalActa Mathematica
Volume207
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Mathematics

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