La completion universelle d'un espace metrique.
We consider the problem of isometric embedding of metric spaces into Banach spaces, and introduce and study the remarkable class of so-called linearly rigid metric spaces: these are the spaces that admit a unique, up to isometry, linearly dense isometric embedding into a Banach space. The first nontrivial example of such a space was given by R. Holmes; he proved that the universal Urysohn space has this property. We give a criterion of linear rigidity of a metric space, which allows us to give a...
We provide a machinery for transferring some properties of metrizable ANR-spaces to metrizable LCn-spaces. As a result, we show that for completely metrizable spaces the properties ALCn, LCn and WLCn coincide to each other. We also provide the following spectral characterizations of ALCn and celllike compacta: A compactum X is ALCn if and only if X is the limit space of a σ-complete inverse system S = {Xα , pβ α , α < β < τ} consisting of compact metrizable LCn-spaces Xα such that all bonding...