Plasticity of the unit ball of a strictly convex Banach space (Q326735): Difference between revisions

If \((X,d)\) is a metric space, a mapping \(f:X\to X\) is noncontractive if \(d(f(x), f(y)) \geq d(x,y)\) for every \(x, y\in X\). The metric space \(X\) is an expand-contract plastic space (an EC-space) if every noncontractive bijection from \(X\) onto itself is an isometry, or, equivalently, if every nonexpansive bijection from \(X\) onto itself is an isometry. The authors prove that the closed unit ball of a strictly convex Banach space is an EC-space and give an example of a closed bounded convex set in a Hilbert space that is not an EC-space. Whether the closed unit ball of every Banach space is an EC-space is an open question.