This is an announcement for the paper "Low distortion embeddings into Asplund Banach spaces" by Antonin Prochazka and Luis Sanchez-Gonzalez.
Abstract: We give a simple example of a countable metric space that does not embed bi-Lipschitz with distortion strictly less than 2 into any Asplund space.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20, 46B85
Remarks: 3 pages
Submitted from: antonin.prochazka@univ-fcomte.fr
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1311.4584
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