Coarse and uniform embeddings (Q504637)

The present paper can be regarded as a contribution to study the relations between uniform and coarse embeddings between Banach spaces. As a step in the corresponding direction, the author also studies the possibility of modifying coarse embeddings in order to achieve continuity. One of the tools is the modified Dugundji theorem. Some of the results of the paper (we refer the reader to the paper for more results, usually with more technical statements): 1. (Theorem 1.2) Let \(X\) be a Banach space and \(Y\) be a minimal Banach space. (Recall that an infinite-dimensional Banach space \(Y\) is called minimal if every infinite-dimensional subspace \(U\) of \(Y\) contains a subspace \(W\) isomorphic to \(Y\)). (i) If \(X\) uniformly embeds into \(Y\), then \(X\) admits an embedding into \(Y\) which is simultaneously coarse and uniform. (ii) If \(X\) coarsely embeds into \(Y\), then \(X\) admits an embedding into \(Y\) which is simultaneously coarse and homeomorphic, and has a uniformly continuous inverse. 2. (Theorem 1.3, strengthening of Theorem 5.1 in [the reviewer, Topol. Proc. 33, 163--183 (2009; Zbl 1179.54042)]) Let \(X\) be an infinite-dimensional Banach space with an unconditional basis and finite cotype. Then \(\ell_2\) admits an embedding into \(X\) which is simultaneously coarse and uniform. 3. (Corollary 1.8, strengthening of Theorem 8.9 in [\textit{N. J. Kalton}, Math. Ann. 354, No. 4, 1247--1288 (2012; Zbl 1268.46018)]) There exist separable Banach spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) which are simultaneously homeomorphically and coarsely equivalent (this means that coarse equivalences can be selected to be homeomorphisms), but not uniformly homeomorphic.