Date
Tue, 21 Nov 2023
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
C2
Speaker
Andras Zsak
Organisation
University of Cambridge

There has been considerable interest in the problem of whether every metric space of bounded geometry coarsely embeds into a uniformly convex Banach space due to the work of Kasparov and Yu that established a connection between such embeddings and the Novikov conjecture. Brown and Guentner were able to prove that a metric space with bounded geometry coarsely embeds into a reflexive Banach space. Kalton significantly extended this result to stable metric spaces and asked whether these classes are coarsely equivalent, i.e. whether every reflexive Banach space coarsely embeds into a stable metric space. Baudier introduced the notion of upper stability, a relaxation of stability, for metric spaces as a new invariant to distinguish reflexive spaces from stable metric spaces. In this talk, we show that in fact, every reflexive space is upper stable and also establish a connection of upper stability to the asymptotic structure of Banach spaces. This is joint work with F. Baudier and Th. Schlumprecht.

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