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Hamming cube as an L1 and L2 metric (Hn​={0,1}n)

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The Hamming cube has dH​(x,y)=∑j​∣xj​−yj​∣. Its coordinate map into ℓ1n​ is isometric, while the same map into ℓ2n​ has distance dH​(x,y)​. Thus the family of all Hamming cubes uniformly coarsely embeds into both L1 and L2.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / iii / Paper 155 / 1 / Solution

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