A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Decomposition in direct sum of seminormed vector spaces and Mazur-Ulam theorem
Authors: Dovgoshey, Oleksiy; Prestin, Jürgen; Shevchuk, Igor
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Mathematica Slovaca
Journal name in source: Mathematica Slovaca
Volume: 74
Issue: 1
First page : 143
Last page: 150
ISSN: 0139-9918
eISSN: 1337-2211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2024-0010(external)
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2024-0010(external)
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.01406(external)
Preprint address: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01406(external)
It was proved by S. Mazur and S. Ulam in 1932 that every isometric surjection between normed real vector spaces is affine. We generalize the Mazur–Ulam theorem and find necessary and sufficient conditions under which distance-preserving mappings between seminormed real vector spaces are linear.
Funding information in the publication:
Oleksiy Dovgoshey was supported by Volkswagen Stiftung Project “From Modeling and Analysis to Approximation”