Preserving coarse properties

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate properties preserved and co-preserved by coarsely n-to-1 functions, in particular by the quotient maps XoX/sim induced by a finite group G acting by isometries on a metric space X. The coarse properties we are mainly interested in are related to asymptotic dimension and its generalizations: having finite asymptotic dimension, asymptotic Property C, straight finite decomposition complexity, countable asymptotic dimension, and metric sparsification property. We provide an alternative description of asymptotic Property C and we prove that the class of spaces with straight finite decomposition complexity coincides with the class of spaces of countable asymptotic dimension.


A map between metric spaces is called bornologous with control \(C\) if the image of every \(r\)-bounded set is \(C(r)\)-bounded. A bornologous map \(F:X\to Y\) between metric spaces is said to be coarsely \(n\)-to-\(1\) with control \(C\) if there is some function \(C:[0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\) such that every subset \(B\subset Y\) with \(\mathrm{diam}(B)\leq r\) has the property that \(f^{-1}(B)\) can be expressed as \(f^{-1}(B)=\bigcup_{n=1}^n A_i\), where \(\mathrm{diam}(A_i)\leq C(r)\), for each \(i\). This class of functions was introduced by \textit{T. Miyata} and \textit{Ž. Virk} [Fundam. Math. 223, No. 1, 83--97 (2013; Zbl 1288.54025)]. The current paper is concerned with the extent to which coarse properties of metric spaces are preserved or co-preserved by classes of functions. The most important class of functions are the coarsely \(n\)-to-\(1\) functions. A coarse property \(\mathcal{P}\) is said to be preserved by a class of functions \(\{f:X\to Y\}\) if \(f(X)\) has \(\mathcal{P}\) whenever \(X\) has \(\mathcal{P}\). A property \(\mathcal{P}\) is co-preserved if \(X\) has \(\mathcal{P}\) whenever \(f(X)\) has \(\mathcal{P}\). The properties under consideration in this paper are coarse dimension-like properties such as finite asymptotic dimension, asymptotic property C, straight finite decomposition complexity, and the metric sparsification property. Among the results the authors obtain are the coincidence of the countable asymptotic dimension and the straight finite decomposition complexity and a characterization of asymptotic property C showing its similarity to countable asymptotic dimension.











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