Gromov–Hausdorff distance conjecture for a regular polygon and the circle

Let S1S^1 be the circle of unit radius in R2\mathbb{R}^2 centered at the origin, and let PnP_n be an inscribed regular polygon with nn sides; equip both with the Euclidean metric. Let dGHd_{GH} denote Gromov–Hausdorff distance and dHR2d_H^{\mathbb{R}^2} Hausdorff distance in the common ambient space R2\mathbb{R}^2. Gromov–Hausdorff distance conjecture.

dGH(Pn,S1)=dHR2(Pn,S1)=1cos(πn).d_{GH}(P_n,S^1)=d_H^{\mathbb{R}^2}(P_n,S^1)=1-\cos\left(\frac{\pi}{n}\right).

The Hausdorff distance gives the displayed upper bound for the Gromov–Hausdorff distance via the common Euclidean embedding. The conjecture asserts that this upper bound is sharp; no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Henry Adams, Samir Chowdhury, Adam Quinn Jaffe and Bonginkosi Sibanda, “Vietoris-Rips Complexes of Regular Polygons”, arXiv:1807.10971 (2018).

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