On isometry and isometric embeddability between ultrametric Polish spaces
Abstract
We study the complexity with respect to Borel reducibility of the relations of isometry and isometric embeddability between ultrametric Polish spaces for which a set of possible distances is fixed in advance. These are, respectively, an analytic equivalence relation and an analytic quasi-order and we show that their complexity depends only on the order type of . When contains a decreasing sequence, isometry is Borel bireducible with countable graph isomorphism and isometric embeddability has maximal complexity among analytic quasi-orders. If is well-ordered the situation is more complex: for isometry we have an increasing sequence of Borel equivalence relations of length which are cofinal among Borel equivalence relations classifiable by countable structures, while for isometric embeddability we have an increasing sequence of analytic quasi-orders of length at least . We then apply our results to solve various open problems in the literature. For instance, we answer a long-standing question of Gao and Kechris by showing that the relation of isometry on locally compact ultrametric Polish spaces is Borel bireducible with countable graph isomorphism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.6659,
title = {On isometry and isometric embeddability between ultrametric Polish spaces},
author = {Riccardo Camerlo and Alberto Marcone and Luca Motto Ros},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6659},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Minor imprecisions corrected. Following the suggestion of the anonymous referee, the former Section 7 concerning arbitrary Polish spaces with fixed set of distances has been left out and will be posted as a separate paper soon. The title is changed as well to reflect this modification