Pseudo-Isometric Surgery
Keywords:
quasi-isometry, pseudo-isometryAbstract
We introduce a type of surgery on metric spaces. This surgery, in some sense, seeks to replace a subspace S of a metric space X with another metric space T via a function f : S → T. When T is a discrete space, this amounts to collapsing the subspace according to the function. This surgery results in a new metric space we denote bXf and there is a natural function F : X → bXf induced from f. Our primary interest is investigating if properties of the original function f are inherited by the induced function F. We show that if f is a pseudo-isometry then so is F. However, for a quasi-isometry, a very natural generalization of a pseudo-isometry that is prevalent in geometric group theory, such a result does not
hold.
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