Metric Graph Approximations of Geodesic Spaces

Abstract

We study the question of approximating a compact geodesic metric space by metric graphs satisfying a uniform upper bound on their first Betti number. We prove that, up to a suitable multiplicative constant, Reeb graphs of distance functions to a point provide optimal approximation in the Gromov-Hausdsorff sense.

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