Spherical distance-map conjecture for spheres

Let n1n\geq 1 be an integer, and let θ,θSn\theta,\theta'\in\mathbb{S}^n. The map ΦSn\Phi_{\mathbb{S}^n} is defined through the classical multidimensional scaling construction, and dSnd_{\mathbb{S}^n} denotes geodesic distance on the unit sphere. Spherical distance-map conjecture. For all θ,θSn\theta,\theta'\in\mathbb{S}^n,

ΦSn(θ)ΦSn(θ)=π(dSn(θ,θ))12.\Vert \Phi_{\mathbb{S}^n}(\theta)-\Phi_{\mathbb{S}^n}(\theta')\Vert=\sqrt{\pi}\big(d_{\mathbb{S}^n}(\theta,\theta')\big)^{\frac{1}{2}}.

This conjecture was motivated by the exact calculation for S1\mathbb{S}^1 and by numerical computations; its validity for all higher-dimensional spheres remains open.

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Sunhyuk Lim and Facundo Memoli, “Classical Multidimensional Scaling on Metric Measure Spaces”, arXiv:2201.09385 (2024).

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