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Complementing our previous results, we give a classification of all isometries (not necessarily surjective) of the metric space consisting of ball-bodies, endowed with the Hausdorff metric. "Ball bodies" are convex bodies which are…

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This note is devoted to proving the following result: given a compact metrizable group G, there is a compact metric space K such that G is isomorphic (as a topological group) to the isometry group of K.

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We obtain a complete classification of the continuous unitary representations of the isometry group of the rational Urysohn space $\mathbb{Q}\mathbb{U}$. As a consequence, we show that Isom$(\mathbb{Q}\mathbb{U})$ has property (T). We also…

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