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Plasticity of the unit ball of some $C(K)$ spaces

Functional Analysis 2022-08-18 v1

Abstract

We show that if KK is a compact metrizable space with finitely many accumulation points, then the closed unit ball of C(K)C(K) is a plastic metric space, which means that any non-expansive bijection from BC(K)B_{C(K)} onto itself is in fact an isometry. We also show that if KK is a zero-dimensional compact Hausdorff space with a dense set of isolated points, then any non-expansive homeomorphism of BC(K)B_{C(K)} is an isometry.

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@article{arxiv.2208.07967,
  title  = {Plasticity of the unit ball of some $C(K)$ spaces},
  author = {Micheline Fakhoury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.07967},
  year   = {2022}
}