# Curly braces and nested arrays

I am trying to reproduce the equation of the image below. I am using an array environment to create the first big curly brace. I have tried to nest a second array to produce a second curly brace, but I get an error.

This is the code that gave me an error:

DTW(A,B)=\left\{ \begin{array}{l}
0 \quad \text{se $n$=0 ed $m$=0}\        \infty \quad \text{se $n$=0 o $m$=0}\        d(H(A),H(B))+\min\left\{
\begin{array}{1}
a\            b\            c\        \end{array}
\right.
\end{array} \right.


How can I write this equation?

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Please give the code giving the error. –  Stephan Lehmke May 2 '12 at 15:25
The {1} after the inner \begin{array} should be {l} (an "ell", not a "one"). The error was Illegal character in array arg. –  egreg May 2 '12 at 15:33
Not tested, but you have 1 (one) instead of l (ell) in the second array spec. - Gah, Ninja'd. –  Stephan Lehmke May 2 '12 at 15:33

You have a typo in your inner array

change

     \begin{array}{1}
%%%


to

   \begin{array}{l}
%%%

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To give you another possibility using cases from amsmath or mathtools.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
$$DTW(A,B)=\begin{cases} 0 \quad \phantom{\infty}\text{if}\,\, n=0 \,\,\text{and}\,\, m=0 \\ \infty \quad \phantom{0} \text{if}\,\, n=0 \,\,\text{and}\,\, m=0 \\ {d(H(A),H(B))+\min \begin{cases} a\\ b\\ c\\ \end{cases}} \end{cases}$$
\end{document}


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