Edrei's conjecture on weak local contractions

Let XX be a compact metric space, and let f:XXf:X\to X be a weak local contraction, meaning that for every xXx\in X there exists an rx>0r_x>0 such that d(x,y)<rxd(x,y)<r_x implies d(f(x),f(y))d(x,y)d(f(x),f(y))\leq d(x,y). A map ff is a local isometry if for every xXx\in X there exists an Rx>0R_x>0 such that d(x,y)<Rxd(x,y)<R_x implies d(f(x),f(y))=d(x,y)d(f(x),f(y))=d(x,y). Edrei's conjecture. Every weak local contraction f:XXf:X\to X on a compact metric space is a local isometry. Edrei's conjecture was disproved by Williams in 1954, who constructed four maps for which every point is a weak contraction point but some points are not isometry points.

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Jan P. Boronski, Jiri Kupka and Piotr Oprocha, “Edrei's Conjecture revisited”, arXiv:1703.01816 (2017).

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