Infinite ultrametric extension conjecture with four-point obstructions
Infinite ultrametric extension conjecture with four-point obstructions
Let be an infinite ultrametric space. A metric space is weakly similar to another when there is a similarity between them, allowing a positive rescaling of distances. Infinite extension conjecture. The following statements are equivalent:
- There exists such that is isometric to a subspace of .
- contains no four-point subspace which is weakly similar to or to .
The source notes that the conjecture is true when is compact and that implication (1) (2) holds for arbitrary infinite ultrametric spaces; the unresolved part is implication (2) (1) for noncompact spaces.
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Primary source
Oleksiy Dovgoshey, Omer Cantor and Olga Rovenska, “Compact ultrametric spaces generated by labeled star graphs”, arXiv:2504.02425 (2025).
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