On the geometry of Urysohn's universal metric space

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 384-403

  Melleray, Julien ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Definable equivalence relation; Isometry; Polish group; Urysohn universal space

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751216476     PISSN: 01668641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.topol.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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