Towards Lower Bounds for Geometric Spanners in High Dimension
We study the stretch--size tradeoff for geometric spanners in high-dimensional $\ell_p$ spaces. Our main contribution is a simple proof of a lower bound shown by Har-Peled, Indyk, and Sidiropoulos [SODA 2013]: Every $2$-hop $t$-spanner of the pointset $\{0,1\}^d$ under $\ell_2$ norm has at least $(2^d)^{1+\Omega(1/t^2)...