Assouad-Nagata dimension via Lipschitz extensions

Abstract

In the first part of the paper we show how to relate several dimension theories (asymptotic dimension with Higson property, asymptotic dimension of Gromov and capacity dimension of Buyalo [7]) to Assouad-Nagata dimension. This is done by applying two functors on the Lipschitz category of metric spaces: microscopic and macroscopic. In the second part we identify (among spaces of finite Assouad-Nagata dimension) spaces of Assouad-Nagata dimension at most n as those for which the n-sphere Sn is a Lipschitz extensor. Large scale and small scale analogues of that result are given.