Isometries between a metric space and its hyperspace, function space, and space of measures.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Isometries between a metric space and its hyperspace, function space, and space of measures.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1041.54027
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-8641(03)00198-6
author: Camillo Costantini
author: Franck van Breugel
author: Stephen Watson
published in: Topology and its Applications
publication date: 2004-03-14T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors show that there does not exist a bounded metric space \(X\) with more than one element which is isometric to the metric space \(CL(X)\) of nonempty and closed subsets of \(X\) endowed with the Hausdorff metric, and there does not exist a bounded metric space \(X\) which is isometric to the metric space \(N(X)\) of nonexpansive real-valued functions on \(X\) endowed with the supremum metric. They leave open the question whether there exists a bounded metric space \(X\) with more than one element which is isometric to the metric space \(M(X)\) of Borel probability measures on \(X\) endowed with the Hutchinson metric. Their main theorem states that for every metric space \(X\) with more than one element, there is a \(\delta>0\) such that there is no expansive function from the set \(D_\delta(X)\) of nonempty and \(\delta\)-discrete subsets of \(X\) endowed with the Hausdorff metric to \(X.\) Problems about fixed points in theoretical computer science motivate the presented investigations.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54E35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54B20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54C35
zbMATH DE Number: 2056842
zbMATH Keywords: metric space
zbMATH Keywords: isometry
zbMATH Keywords: hyperspace
zbMATH Keywords: function space
zbMATH Keywords: space of measures
zbMATH Keywords: Hausdorff metric
zbMATH Keywords: supremum metric
zbMATH Keywords: Hutchinson metric
reviewed by: Hans Peter Künzi
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
cites work: Q4277838
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full work available at URL: s0166-8641(03)00198-6
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