Planar earthmover is not in L1

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 804-826

  Naor, Assaf ^a   Schechtman, Gideon ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Earthmover metric; Metric embeddings; Nearest neighbor search

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449112099     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/05064206X     Document Type: Article

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