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Plastic metric spaces and groups

Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: A metric space is plastic if all its non-expansive bijections are isometries. We prove three main results: (1) every countable dense subspace of a normed space is not plastic, (2) every $k$-crowded separable metric space contains a plastic dense subspace, and (3) every strictly convex separable metric group contains a plastic dense subgroup.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7091187746
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