Large scale absolute extensors

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2016.08.027MaRDI QIDQ340724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Dydak, A. Mitra

Publication date 15 November 2016

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5987

zbMATH Keywords

absolute extensorsasymptotic dimensioncoarse geometryLipschitz mapsproperty A

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10)

Abstract: This paper is devoted to dualization of dimension-theoretical results from the small scale to the large scale. So far there are two approaches for such dualization: one consisting of creating analogs of small scale concepts and the other amounting to the covering dimension of the Higson corona $u(X)$ of $X$. The first approach was used by M.Gromov when defining the asymptotic dimension $asdim(X)$ of metric spaces $X$. The second approach was implicitly contained in the paper cite{Dran AsyTop} by Dranishnikov on asymptotic topology. It is not known if the two approaches yield the same concept. However, Dranishnikov-Keesling-Uspenskiy proved $dim(u(X)leqasdim(X)$ and Dranishnikov established that $dim(u(X)=asdim(X)$ provided $asdim(X)<infty$. We characterize asymptotic dimension (for spaces of finite asymptotic dimension) in terms of extensions of slowly oscillating functions to spheres. Our approach is specifically designed to relate asymptotic dimension to the covering dimension of the Higson corona $u(X)$ in case of proper metric spaces $X$. As an application, we recover the results of Dranishnikov-Keesling-Uspenskiy and Dranishnikov.

Review text

\textit{A. N. Dranishnikov} et al. [Topology 37, No. 4, 791--803 (1998; Zbl 0910.54026)] proved that the covering dimension \(\dim (\nu X)\) of the Higson corona \(\nu X\) of a proper metric space \(X\) does not exceed the asymptotic dimension \(\mathrm{adsim} (X)\) of \(X\), and \textit{A. N. Dranishnikov} [Russ. Math. Surv. 55, No. 6, 1085--1129 (2000; Zbl 1028.54032); translation from Usp. Mat. Nauk 55, No. 6, 71--116 (2000)] proved that \(\dim (\nu X) = \mathrm{adsim} (X)\) provided \(X\) is a proper metric space of finite asymptotic dimension.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper the authors give alternative proofs of the above theorems in terms of extensions of slowly oscillating functions to spheres. For metric spaces \((X,d_X)\) and \((Y,d_Y)\) and \(x_0 \in X\), a (not necessarily continuous) function \(f: X\to Y\) is said to be slowly oscillating if for every \(R, \epsilon >0\) there is \(N>0\) such that for any \(x, y \in X\) with \(d_X(x_0,x) >N\), if \(d_X(x,y)< R\), then \(d_Y(f(x),f(y)) <\epsilon\). A metric space \(K\) is called a large scale absolute extensor of a metric space \(X\) if for any subset \(A\) of \(X\) and any slowly oscillating function \(f: A \to K\) there exists an extension \(g : X \to K\) of \(f\) that is slowly oscillating. Let \(S^n\) be the \(n\)-dimensional unit sphere in the (\(n+1\))-dimensional Euclidean space. After establishing properties on large scale absolute extensors, the authors prove the following theorems: For a proper metric space \(X\) and \(n \geq 0\), \(\dim(\nu X) \leq n\) if and only if \(S^n\) is a large scale absolute extensor of \(X\); if \(X\) is a metric space of \(\mathrm{asdim} (X) \leq n\), then \(S^n\) is a large scale absolute extensor of \(X\); and if \(X\) is a metric space of finite asymptotic dimension such that \(S^n\) is a large scale absolute extensor of \(X\), then \(\mathrm{asdim} (X) \leq n\).

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