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Banakh spaces and their geometry

General Topology 2026-04-08 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Following Will Brian, we define a metric space XX to be BanakhBanakh if all nonempty spheres of positive radius rr in XX have cardinality 22 and diameter 2r2r. Standard examples of Banakh spaces are subgroups of the real line. In this paper we study the geometry of Banakh spaces, characterize Banakh spaces which are isometric to subgroups of the real line, and also construct Banakh spaces (X,d)(X,d) which do not embed into the real line and have a prescribed distance set d[X2]d[X^2].

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@article{arxiv.2305.07354,
  title  = {Banakh spaces and their geometry},
  author = {Taras Banakh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07354},
  year   = {2026}
}

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39 pages

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