Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4660158 Topology and its Applications 2008 17 Pages PDF
Abstract

A metric space is indivisible if for any partition of it into finitely many pieces one piece contains an isometric copy of the whole space. Continuing our investigation of indivisible metric spaces [C. Delhommé, C. Laflamme, M. Pouzet, N. Sauer, Divisibility of countable metric spaces, European J. Combin. 28 (2007) 1746–1769], we show that a countable ultrametric space is isometrically embeddable into an indivisible ultrametric space if and only if it does not contain a strictly increasing sequence of balls.

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