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 language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 291-373 |
| Number of pages | 83 |
| Journal | Acta Mathematica |
| Volume | 207 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Mathematics