Assouad-Nagata dimension via Lipschitz extensions (Q836125)

The object under consideration is the Assouad-Nagata dimension \(\dim_{AN}\) (also known as Nagata dimension) introduced in [\textit{P. Assouad}, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I Math. 294, No.~1, 31--34 (1982; Zbl 0481.54015)] for metric spaces. In the first part of the paper the authors show the relationship between Assouad-Nagata dimension, asymptotic dimension of linear type and capacity dimension of Buyalo. Given a metric space \((X, d)\) and \(\varepsilon > 0\), on the set \(X\) consider the metrics \(d_1(x, y) = \max\{d(x,y), \varepsilon\}\) if \(x \neq y\), and \(0\) otherwise; and \(d_2(x, y) = \min\{d(x,y), \varepsilon\}\). Then \(\dim_{AN} (X, d_1)\) is equal to the asymptotic dimension of \((X, d)\) of linear type, \(\dim_{AN} (X, d_2)\) is equal to the capacity dimension of \((X, d)\) and \(\dim_{AN} (X, d) = \max\{\dim_{AN} (X, d_1), \dim_{AN} (X, d_2)\}\). In the second part of the paper the authors characterize Assouad-Nagata dimension via Lipschitz extensions. Namely, for a metric space \((X, d)\) such that \(\dim_{AN} (X, d) < \infty\) and \(n \geq 0\) we have \(\dim_{AN} (X, d) \leq n\) iff \(S^n\) is a Lipschitz extensor. In the case of dimension zero the assumption of \(\dim_{AN} (X, d)\) being finite can be dropped. (Recall that a metric space \((Y, d_Y)\) is a Lipschitz extensor of a metric space \((X, d_X)\) if there is a constant \(C > 0\) such that for any \(A \subset X\) and for any Lipschitz mapping \(f : A \to Y\) there exists a Lipschitz extension \(g : X \to Y\) of \(f\) for which \(\text{Lip}(g) \leq C \cdot \text{Lip}(f)\), where \(\text{Lip}(h)\) of a Lipschitz mapping \(h : U \to W\) between metric spaces \((U, d_U)\) and \((W, d_W)\) is the infimum of all possible \(\lambda\) (the authors allow \(\lambda\) to be smaller than \(1\)) such that \(d_W(h(a), h(b)) \leq \lambda \cdot d_U(a,b)\) for all \(a, b \in U\).) In the third part of the paper the authors present a characterization of asymptotic dimension of Gromov in terms of Assouad-Nagata dimension.