@inproceedings{22003,
  abstract     = {Let G be a finite, connected metric graph and let X be a subset of G. If X is sufficiently dense in G, we show that the Gromov-Hausdorff distance matches the Hausdorff distance, namely d_GH(G,X) = d_H(G,X). When the metric graph is the circle G = S¹ with circumference 2π, a recent study established the equality d_GH(S¹,X) = d_H(S¹,X) whenever d_GH(S¹,X) < π/6. Our results relax this hypothesis to d_GH(S¹,X) < π/3, and furthermore, we show that the constant π/3 is the best possible. We lower bound the Gromov-Hausdorff distance d_GH(G,X) by the Hausdorff distance d_H(G,X) via a simple topological obstruction: the existence of a possibly discontinuous function f: G → X with too small distortion contradicts the connectedness of G.},
  author       = {Adams, Henry and Majhi, Sushovan and Manin, Fedor and Virk, Ziga and Zava, Nicolò},
  booktitle    = {42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry},
  isbn         = {9783959774185},
  issn         = {1868-8969},
  keywords     = {Gromov–Hausdorff distance, distortion, connectedness, Borsuk–Ulam theorem},
  location     = {New Brunswick, NJ, United States},
  publisher    = {Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik},
  title        = {{Lower bounding the Gromov–Hausdorff distance in metric graphs}},
  doi          = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2026.3},
  volume       = {367},
  year         = {2026},
}

