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Minimal universal metric spaces

Metric Geometry 2015-04-17 v3

Abstract

Let M\mathfrak{M} be a class of metric spaces. A metric space YY is minimal M\mathfrak{M}-universal if every XMX\in\mathfrak{M} can be isometrically embedded in YY but there are no proper subsets of YY satisfying this property. We find conditions under which, for given metric space XX, there is a class M\mathfrak{M} of metric spaces such that XX is minimal M\mathfrak{M}-universal. We generalize the notion of minimal M\mathfrak{M}-universal metric space to notion of minimal M\mathfrak{M}-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 M\mathfrak{M} is minimal M\mathfrak{M}-universal are found. Examples of minimal universal metric spaces are constructed for the classes of the three-point metric spaces and nn-dimensional normed spaces. Moreover minimal universal metric spaces are found for some subclasses of the class of metric spaces XX which possesses the following property. Among every three distinct points of XX there is one point lying between the other two points.

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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

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