OpenAI · 099-01 · 2026-09-27 · Convex and metric geometry
Edit Distance in l1: Matching Bounds up to Constants in the Exponent
preprints/Edit-Distance-in-l1-Matching-Bounds-up-to-Constants-in-the-Exponent-September-27-2026
Family 099. The sharp distortion of edit distance into .
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Determines the least distortion of embedding edit distance on words of length at most into real : it is . Insertions, deletions and substitutions have unit cost. The constants are uniform over all finite alphabets with at least two symbols, even when the alphabet grows with ; binary words already force the lower bound.
We determine the exponential scale of the least ℓ1 distortion of unit-cost edit distance on all strings of length at most d. For every sufficiently large d, uniformly over finite alphabets of size at least two, the distortion lies between and for absolute constants . The lower bound already holds on binary strings of one common length. Thus the order of logarithmic distortion is sharp up to absolute constants.
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This preprint is named in the Lean scope note for 099: The sharp exponential scale of edit-distance distortion. The authors are OpenAI. This companion does not verify the formalization. It is not a premise. The OAI library is not imported. No compilation is asserted. O.1 stays NOT_CLOSED.