{"title":"Subsets of rectifiable curves in Banach spaces I: Sharp exponents in traveling salesman theorems","authors":"Matthew Badger, Sean McCurdy","doi":"10.1215/00192082-10592363","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Analyst's Traveling Salesman Problem is to find a characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves in a metric space. This problem was introduced and solved in the plane by Jones in 1990 and subsequently solved in higher-dimensional Euclidean spaces by Okikiolu in 1992 and in the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $\\ell_2$ by Schul in 2007. In this paper, we establish sharp extensions of Schul's necessary and sufficient conditions for a bounded set $E\\subset\\ell_p$ to be contained in a rectifiable curve from $p=2$ to $1<p<\\infty$. While the necessary and sufficient conditions coincide when $p=2$, we demonstrate that there is a strict gap between the necessary condition and sufficient condition when $p\\neq 2$. We also identify and correct technical errors in the proof by Schul. This investigation is partly motivated by recent work of Edelen, Naber, and Valtorta on Reifenberg-type theorems in Banach spaces and complements work of Hahlomaa and recent work of David and Schul on the Analyst's TSP in general metric spaces.","PeriodicalId":56298,"journal":{"name":"Illinois Journal of Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2020-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Illinois Journal of Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00192082-10592363","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Analyst's Traveling Salesman Problem is to find a characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves in a metric space. This problem was introduced and solved in the plane by Jones in 1990 and subsequently solved in higher-dimensional Euclidean spaces by Okikiolu in 1992 and in the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $\ell_2$ by Schul in 2007. In this paper, we establish sharp extensions of Schul's necessary and sufficient conditions for a bounded set $E\subset\ell_p$ to be contained in a rectifiable curve from $p=2$ to $1
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