Über die Funktionalgleichung der Längentreue im Ringbereich.
The aim of the paper is to prove that the bounded and unbounded Urysohn universal spaces have unique (up to isometric isomorphism) structures of metric groups of exponent 2. An algebraic-geometric characterization of Boolean Urysohn spaces (i.e. metric groups of exponent 2 which are metrically Urysohn spaces) is given.
Let be a compactly generated locally compact group and let be a compact generating set. We prove that if has polynomial growth, then is a Følner sequence and we give a polynomial estimate of the rate of decay of Our proof uses only two ingredients: the doubling property and a weak geodesic property that we call Property (M). As a matter of fact, the result remains true in a wide class of doubling metric measured spaces including manifolds and graphs. As an application, we obtain a -pointwise...