Conjecture on asymptotic isometry and asymptotic equivalence

Let YY and ZZ be unbounded metric spaces, and let r~=(rn)nN\tilde{r}=(r_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}} be a scaling sequence. For a metric space WW, write Seq(W,r~)Seq(W,\tilde{r}) for its sequence space at scale r~\tilde{r}, and let Y1,Z1XY_1,Z_1\subseteq X be unbounded metric subspaces. Asymptotic isometry–equivalence conjecture. The following conditions are equivalent:

  1. YY and ZZ are asymptotically isometric with respect to r~\tilde{r}.
  2. There are a metric space XX and unbounded subsets Y1,Z1XY_1,Z_1\subseteq X such that:
  3. Seq(Y,r~)Seq(Y,\tilde{r}) is pseudoisometric to Seq(Y1,r~)Seq(Y_1,\tilde{r});
  4. Seq(Z,r~)Seq(Z,\tilde{r}) is pseudoisometric to Seq(Z1,r~)Seq(Z_1,\tilde{r});
  5. Y1Y_1 and Z1Z_1 are asymptotically equivalent with respect to r~\tilde{r}.

This conjecture describes the proposed interconnection between asymptotically isometric spaces and asymptotically equivalent metric subspaces of a common metric space. The supplied text proves a related implication for asymptotically equivalent subspaces but gives no resolution of the stated equivalence.

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Viktoriia Bilet and Oleksiy Dovgoshey, “On equivalence of unbounded metric spaces at infinity”, arXiv:2106.00049 (2021).

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