Let $(X,\rho )$, $(Y,\sigma )$ be metric spaces and $f:X\to Y$ an injective mapping. We put ${\parallel f\parallel }_{Lip}=sup\{\sigma (f\left(x\right),f\left(y\right))/\rho (x,y)$; $x,y\in X$, $x\ne y\}$, and $dist\left(f\right)={\parallel f\parallel }_{Lip}.{\parallel f^{-1}\parallel }_{Lip}$ (the distortion of the mapping $f$). Some Ramsey-type questions for mappings of finite metric spaces with bounded distortion are studied; e.g., the following theorem is proved: Let $X$ be a finite metric space, and let $\epsilon >0$, $K$ be given numbers. Then there exists a finite metric space $Y$, such that for every mapping $f:Y\to Z$ ($Z$ arbitrary metric space) with $dist\left(f\right)<K$ one can find a mapping $g:X\to Y$, such that both the mappings $g$ and ${f|}_{g\left(X\right)}$ have distortion at...

We continue the study of remainders of metrizable spaces, expanding and applying results obtained in [Fund. Math. 215 (2011)]. Some new facts are established. In particular, the closure of any countable subset in the remainder of a metrizable space is a Lindelöf p-space. Hence, if a remainder of a metrizable space is separable, then this remainder is a Lindelöf p-space. If the density of a remainder Y of a metrizable space does not exceed $2^{\omega }$, then Y is a Lindelöf Σ-space. We also show that many of...

In this paper, we prove that each sequence-covering and boundary-compact map on $g$-metrizable spaces is 1-sequence-covering. Then, we give some relationships between sequence-covering maps and 1-sequence-covering maps or weak-open maps, and give an affirmative answer to the problem posed by F.C. Lin and S. Lin in [Lin.F.C.and.Lin.S-2011].

Guoliang Yu has introduced a property on discrete metric spaces and groups, which is a weak form of amenability and which has important applications to the Novikov conjecture and the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture. The aim of the present paper is to prove that property in particular examples, like spaces with subexponential growth, amalgamated free products of discrete groups having property A and HNN extensions of discrete groups having property A.