An example of a rigid -superuniversal metric space

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2016.05.010zbMATH Open1341.54013arXiv1407.3767OpenAlexW2963657307MaRDI QIDQ290624FDOQ290624

Authors: Wojciech Bielas 

Publication date: 3 June 2016

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

Abstract: For a cardinal $kappa>omega$ a metric space $X$ is called to be $kappa$-superuniversal whenever for every metric space $Y$ with $|Y|<kappa$ every partial isometry from a subset of $Y$ into $X$ can be extended over the whole space $Y$. Examples of such spaces were given by Hechler [1] and Katv{e}tov [2]. In particular, Katv{e}tov showed that if $omega<kappa=kapp{a}^{<kappa}$, then there exists a $kappa$-superuniversal $K$ which is moreover $kappa$-homogeneous, i.e. every isometry of a subspace $YsubseteqK$ with $|Y|<kappa$ can be extended to an isometry of the whole $K$. In connection of this W. Kubi's suggested that there should also exist a $kappa$-superuniversal space that is not $kappa$-homogeneous. In this paper there is shown that for every cardinal $kappa$ there exists a $kappa$-superuniversal space which is rigid, i.e. has exactly one isometry, namely the identity. The construction involves an amalgamation-like property of a family of metric spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3767

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\kappa\)-superuniversal metric spacesamalgamation propertyrigid metric spacesUrysohn universal spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Metric geometry (51F99)

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