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does sorting minimize distance?

Say suppose $x,y \in \mathbb{R}^n$. Assume we have a sorting algorithm that sort $x \to X: \{ x_i \}_{i=1}^n = \{ X_i \}_{i=1}^n $ and for every $1 \leq i \leq j \leq n$, $X_i \leq X_j$. The same ...
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Does switching between different $L_p$ norms preserve order?

Suppose you have a list of $n$ dimensional vectors. One can order them by using an $L_p$ norm to do comparisons between vectors. The general questions is, will the order be different depending on the ...
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