Classifying homogeneous ultrametric spaces up to coarse equivalence (Q2804285)

In this paper the authors review the standard definitions of the coarse category and provide a coarse characterization of homogenous ultrametric spaces. It is well known that a space is an ultrametric space if and only if its asymptotic dimension is zero. Hence the paper provides a coarse classification of homogenous metric spaces of asymptotic dimension zero.NEWLINENEWLINEThe approach is based on cardinal characteristics \(\mathrm{cov}^\sharp\) and \(\mathrm{cov}^\flat\) arising from the minimal cardinality of the family of balls of certain diameter covering a ball of larger diameter. These are an adaptation of the characteristics used by the first author and I. Zarichnyi to prove a coarse classification of coarsely homogenous separable ultrametric spaces. It turns out that \(\mathrm{cov}^\sharp (X)\) and \(\mathrm{cov}^\flat(X)\) are coarse invariants and coincide if and only if \(X\) is coarsely equivalent to an isometrically homogeneous ultrametric space. In the later case \(\mathrm{cov}^\sharp (X)=\mathrm{cov}^\flat(X)\) completely determines the coarse type of a homogeneous ultrametric space \(X\).