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Classifying homogeneous ultrametric spaces up to coarse equivalence

General Topology 2019-09-25 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

For every metric space XX we introduce two cardinal characteristics cov(X)\mathrm{cov}^\flat(X) and cov(X)\mathrm{cov}^\sharp(X) describing the capacity of balls in XX. We prove that these cardinal characteristics are invariant under coarse equivalence and prove that two ultrametric spaces X,YX,Y are coarsely equivalent if cov(X)=cov(X)=cov(Y)=cov(Y)\mathrm{cov}^\flat(X)=\mathrm{cov}^\sharp(X)=\mathrm{cov}^\flat(Y)=\mathrm{cov}^\sharp(Y). This result implies that an ultrametric space XX is coarsely equivalent to an isometrically homogeneous ultrametric space if and only if cov(X)=cov(X)\mathrm{cov}^\flat(X)=\mathrm{cov}^\sharp(X). Moreover, two isometrically homogeneous ultrametric spaces X,YX,Y are coarsely equivalent if and only if cov(X)=cov(Y)\mathrm{cov}^\sharp(X)=\mathrm{cov}^\sharp(Y) if and only if each of these spaces coarsely embeds into the other space. This means that the coarse structure of an isometrically homogeneous ultrametric space XX is completely determined by the value of the cardinal cov(X)=cov(X)\mathrm{cov}^\sharp(X)=\mathrm{cov}^\flat(X).

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@article{arxiv.1408.4818,
  title  = {Classifying homogeneous ultrametric spaces up to coarse equivalence},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Dušan Repovš},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4818},
  year   = {2019}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1103.5118, arXiv:0908.3687