Metric Characterizations of Superreflexivity in Terms of Word Hyperbolic Groups and Finite Graphs

Mikhail Ostrovskii

Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces (2014)

  • Volume: 2, Issue: 1, page 154-168, electronic only
  • ISSN: 2299-3274

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We show that superreflexivity can be characterized in terms of bilipschitz embeddability of word hyperbolic groups.We compare characterizations of superrefiexivity in terms of diamond graphs and binary trees.We show that there exist sequences of series-parallel graphs of increasing topological complexitywhich admit uniformly bilipschitz embeddings into a Hilbert space, and thus do not characterize superrefiexivity.

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Mikhail Ostrovskii. "Metric Characterizations of Superreflexivity in Terms of Word Hyperbolic Groups and Finite Graphs." Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces 2.1 (2014): 154-168, electronic only. <http://eudml.org/doc/267138>.

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