Minimal universal metric spaces
Abstract
Let be a class of metric spaces. A metric space is minimal -universal if every can be isometrically embedded in but there are no proper subsets of satisfying this property. We find conditions under which, for given metric space , there is a class of metric spaces such that is minimal -universal. We generalize the notion of minimal -universal metric space to notion of minimal -universal class of metric spaces and prove the uniqueness, up to an isomorphism, for these classes. The necessary and sufficient conditions under which the disjoint union of the metric spaces belonging to a class is minimal -universal are found. Examples of minimal universal metric spaces are constructed for the classes of the three-point metric spaces and -dimensional normed spaces. Moreover minimal universal metric spaces are found for some subclasses of the class of metric spaces which possesses the following property. Among every three distinct points of there is one point lying between the other two points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.00667,
title = {Minimal universal metric spaces},
author = {V. Bilet and O. Dovgoshey and M. Kucukaslan and E. Petrov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00667},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
61 pages, 18 figures