@InProceedings{le_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.47, author = {Le, Hung and Milenkovi\'{c}, Lazar and Solomon, Shay}, title = {{Sparse Euclidean Spanners with Optimal Diameter: A General and Robust Lower Bound via a Concave Inverse-Ackermann Function}}, booktitle = {39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023)}, pages = {47:1--47:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-273-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {258}, editor = {Chambers, Erin W. and Gudmundsson, Joachim}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.47}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-178976}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.47}, annote = {Keywords: Euclidean spanners, Ackermann functions, convex functions, hop-diameter} }