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Metric products and continuation of isotone functions

Metric Geometry 2012-03-02 v1

Abstract

Let R+=[0,)\mathbb{R}_+=[0,\infty) and let AR+nA\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n_+. We have found the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a function Φ:AR+\Phi:A\to\mathbb{R}_+ has an isotone subadditive continuation on R+n\mathbb{R}^n_+. It allows us to describe the metrics, defined on the Cartesian product X1×...×XnX_1\times...\times X_n of given metric spaces (X1,dX1),...,(Xn,...,dXn)(X_1,d_{X_1}),...,(X_n,...,d_{X_n}), generated by the isotone metric preserving functions on R+n\mathbb{R}^n_+. It also shows that the isotone metric preserving functions Φ:R+nR+\Phi:\mathbb{R}^n_+\to\mathbb{R}_+ coincide with the first moduli of continuity of the nonconstant bornologous functions g:R+nR+g:\mathbb{R}^n_+\to\mathbb{R}_+. We discuss some algebraic properties of sets XRX\subseteq \mathbb{R} providing the existence of isometric embeddings f:BXf:B\to X for every three-point BRB\subseteq \mathbb{R}. In particular, we prove that every finite subset of R\mathbb{R} is isometric to some subset of transcendental real numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1203.0257,
  title  = {Metric products and continuation of isotone functions},
  author = {O. Dovgoshey and E. Petrov and G. Kozub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0257},
  year   = {2012}
}

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