Asymptotic dimension and uniform embeddings. (Q2475044)

Summary: We study uniform embeddings of metric spaces, which satisfy some asymptotic tameness conditions such as finite asymptotic dimension, finite Assouad-Nagata dimension, polynomial dimension growth or polynomial growth, into function spaces. We show how the `type function' of a space with finite asymptotic dimension estimates its Hilbert (or any \(\ell^p\)-) compression. In particular, we show that the spaces of finite asymptotic dimension with `linear type' (spaces with finite Assouad-Nagata dimension) have compression rate equal to one. We show, without the extra assumption that the space has the doubling property (finite Assouad dimension), that a space with polynomial growth has polynomial dimension growth and compression rate equal to one. The method used allows us to obtain a lower bound on the compression of the lamplighter group \(\mathbb{Z}\wr\mathbb{Z}\), which has infinite asymptotic dimension.