SPACES OF SMALL METRIC COTYPE

Abstract

Mendel and Naor's definition of metric cotype extends the notion of the Rademacher cotype of a Banach space to all metric spaces. Every Banach space has metric cotype at least 2. We show that any metric space that is bi-Lipschitz is equivalent to an ultrametric space having infimal metric cotype 1. We discuss the invariance of metric cotype inequalities under snowflaking mappings and Gromov–Hausdorff limits, and use these facts to establish a partial converse of the main result.

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• Journal of Topology and Analysis - View
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