Lipschitz-type functions on metric spaces

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2007.08.028MaRDI QIDQ2467765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jesús A. Jaramillo, M. I. Garrido

Publication date 28 January 2008

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.08.028

Banach-Stone theorem Lipschitz functions small-determined metric space uniform approximation

Lattices of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E05) Function spaces in general topology (54C35) Algebraic properties of function spaces in general topology (54C40) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35)

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Given a metric space \((X,d)\), let \(\text{Lip}(X)\) and \(\text{Lip}^*(X)\) denote, respectively, the set of all Lipschitz real functions and the set of all bounded Lipschitz real functions on \((X,d)\). In this paper, the authors examine the problem as to when \(\text{Lip}^*(X)\) determines \(X\). To achieve their goal, they introduce several types of Lipschitz functions. In particular, Lipschitz functions in the small and small-determined spaces are found to be useful. Recall that a function \(f:(X,d) \to (Y,\rho)\) between two metric spaces \((X,d)\) and \((Y,\rho)\) is Lipschitz in the small if there exist \(r>0\) and \(K\geq 0\) such that \(\rho(f(x),f(y)) \leq K\cdot d(x,y)\) whenever \(d(x,y)\leq r\). The space \((X,d)\) is called small-determined if \(\text{LS}(X)=\text{Lip}(X)\). Further, \((X,d)\) and \((Y,\rho)\) are called LS-homeomorphic if there exists a homeomorphism \(h\) such that \(h\) and \(h^{-1}\) are Lipschitz in the small. It is shown that two complete metric spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) are LS-homeomorphic if and only if \(\text{LS}(X)\) and \(\text{LS}(Y)\) are isomorphic as unital vector lattices, if and only if \(\text{Lip}^*(X)\) and \(\text{LS}(Y)\) are isomorphic as either algebras or unital vector lattices. Consequently, in the class of complete small-determined metric spaces \(X\), the Lip-structure of \(X\) is determined by \(\text{Lip}^*(X)\) as an algebra or a unital vector lattice. This is a theorem of the Banach-Stone type. Small-determined metric spaces are LS-homeomorphic invariants, and the class of small-determined spaces includes bounded weakly precompact metric spaces, as well as quasi-convex metric spaces. The authors also investigate properties of small-determined spaces. Among many other things, it is shown that small-determined spaces are precisely those metric spaces on which every uniformly continuous real function can be uniformly approximated by Lipschitz functions.

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