Distance sets of universal and Urysohn metric spaces
Abstract
A metric space is {\em homogeneous} if for every isometry of a finite subspace of to a subspace of there exists an isometry of onto extending . A metric space is an {\em Urysohn} metric space if it is homogeneous and separable and complete and if it isometrically embeds every separable metric space with . (With being the set of distances between points in .) The main results are: (1) A characterization of the sets for Urysohn metric spaces . (2) If is the distance set of an Urysohn metric space and and are two metric spaces, of any cardinality with distances in , then they amalgamate disjointly to a metric space with distances in . (3) The completion of a homogeneous separable metric space which embeds isometrically every finite metric space with is homogeneous.
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@article{arxiv.1107.4794,
title = {Distance sets of universal and Urysohn metric spaces},
author = {Norbert Sauer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4794},
year = {2011}
}