On Urysohn's \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On Urysohn's \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree
zbMATH Open document ID: 1422.54035
DOI: 10.1134/S0037446619010026
published in: Siberian Mathematical Journal
publication date: 2019-07-12T00:00:00Z
review text: The author gives a short survey of properties of \(\mathbb{R}\)-trees and, in particular, of the Urysohn \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree. Recall that \(\mathbb{R}\)-trees can be characterized as uniquely geodesic metric spaces in which, for any three different points, the three shortest arcs joining pairs of these points have a unique intersection point. The Urysohn tree \(R\) is an \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree such that \[ R = \bigcup_{n \in \{0\} \cup \mathbb{N}} R_n, \] where \(R_0 = \{0\}\) and \(R_{n+1}\) is obtained from \(R_n\) by gluing to each \(x_n \in R_n\) a space \(C_{x_n}\) which is the union of a continual family of closed half-lines \(\mathbb{R}_{+}\) intersecting pairwise only in zero and such that \(C_{x_n} \cap R_n = \{x_n\}\) and \(C_{x_n} \cap C_{y_n} = \varnothing\) if \(y_n \in R_n\) and \(y_n \neq x_n\). Every pair of points \(x\), \(y \in R\) can be joined in \(R\) by a unique topological segment and the length of this segment is, by definition, the distance between \(x\) and \(y\). Several new interesting results describing the boundary of \(\mathbb{R}\)-trees are obtained. Let \(X\) be a \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree. A boundary of \(X\) is the set of all points \(x \in X\) for which the set \(X \setminus \{x\}\) is connected. Theorem. Let \(Y = \{y_1, \ldots, y_n\}\), \(n \geqslant 4\), be a metric space. If \(Y\) is the boundary of some \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree \(X\), then any point in \(Y\) does not lie between the two other points from \(Y\). If the last condition is satisfied, then there exists at most one minimal \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree \(X\) with boundary \(Y\). The constructive proof of this result is based on \textit{P. Buneman}'s four-point property [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 17, 48--50 (1974; Zbl 0286.05102)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54E35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54F50
zbMATH DE Number: 7079955
zbMATH Keywords: boundary
zbMATH Keywords: four-point property
zbMATH Keywords: injective hull
zbMATH Keywords: left-invariant geodesic metric
zbMATH Keywords: \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree
zbMATH Keywords: submetry
zbMATH Keywords: ultrametric
author: V. N. Berestovskij
reviewed by: Aleksey A. Dovgoshey
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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