Various new nonembeddability results (mainly into L1) are proved via Fourier analysis. In particular, it is shown that the edit distance on {0, 1}d has L1 distortion (log d)12 - o(1)/. We also give new lower bounds on the L1 distortion of quotients of the discrete hypercube under group actions, and the transportation cost (Earthmover) metric.
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Foundations of Computer Science, 2005. FOCS 2005. 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Date of Conference: 23-25 Oct. 2005