{"title":"Anti-absorbing ternary operations on metric spaces","authors":"Leonid V. Kovalev","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2024.109153","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The existence of a median-type ternary operation on a metric space is known to have a number of implications for the geometry of the space. For such operations, if two of the three arguments coincide, they also coincide with the output of the operation. We consider ternary operations with the opposite property: if two of the arguments coincide, the output is equal to the third one. The existence of such an operation is a necessary condition for the space to be an absolute retract.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"360 ","pages":"Article 109153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Topology and its Applications","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166864124003389","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The existence of a median-type ternary operation on a metric space is known to have a number of implications for the geometry of the space. For such operations, if two of the three arguments coincide, they also coincide with the output of the operation. We consider ternary operations with the opposite property: if two of the arguments coincide, the output is equal to the third one. The existence of such an operation is a necessary condition for the space to be an absolute retract.
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Topology and its Applications is primarily concerned with publishing original research papers of moderate length. However, a limited number of carefully selected survey or expository papers are also included. The mathematical focus of the journal is that suggested by the title: Research in Topology. It is felt that it is inadvisable to attempt a definitive description of topology as understood for this journal. Certainly the subject includes the algebraic, general, geometric, and set-theoretic facets of topology as well as areas of interactions between topology and other mathematical disciplines, e.g. topological algebra, topological dynamics, functional analysis, category theory. Since the roles of various aspects of topology continue to change, the non-specific delineation of topics serves to reflect the current state of research in topology.
At regular intervals, the journal publishes a section entitled Open Problems in Topology, edited by J. van Mill and G.M. Reed. This is a status report on the 1100 problems listed in the book of the same name published by North-Holland in 1990, edited by van Mill and Reed.