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On isometry and isometric embeddability between ultrametric Polish spaces

Logic 2018-12-06 v5

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 DD 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 DD. When DD contains a decreasing sequence, isometry is Borel bireducible with countable graph isomorphism and isometric embeddability has maximal complexity among analytic quasi-orders. If DD is well-ordered the situation is more complex: for isometry we have an increasing sequence of Borel equivalence relations of length ω1\omega_1 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 ω+3\omega+3. 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.

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@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

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