arXiv · 1509.06398
We show that a snowflake of a metric space with positive Hausdorff dimension does not admit an isometric embedding into euclidean space.
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Erik Walsberg. 2015-09-21. Isometric Embeddability of Snowflakes. https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06398
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