@misc{10481/94370, year = {2024}, month = {8}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/94370}, abstract = {We introduce the notion of (almost isometric) local retracts in metric space as a natural non-linear version of the concepts of ideals and almost isometric ideals in Banach spaces. We prove that given two metric spaces N⊆Mthere always exists an almost isometric local retract S⊆Mwith N⊆Sand dens(N) =dens(S). We also prove that metric spaces which are local retracts (respectively almost isometric local retracts) can be characterised in terms of a condition of extendability of Lipschitz functions (respectively almost isometries) between finite metric spaces. Various examples and counterexamples are exhibited.}, organization = {MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033: grant PID2021-122126NB-C31 (Rueda Zoca), grant PID2021-122126NB-C33 (Quilis)}, organization = {GACR Grant GA23-04776S, Czech Ministry of Youth and Sport project SGS23/056/OHK3/1T/13 and by the French ANR project No. ANR-20-CE40-0006}, organization = {Junta de Andalucía: Grants FQM-0185 and PY20_00255}, organization = {Fundación Séneca: ACyT Región de Murcia grant 21955/PI/22}, organization = {Generalitat Valenciana project CIGE/2022/97}, publisher = {Elsevier}, keywords = {Absolute local retracts}, keywords = {Almost isometric local retracts}, keywords = {Finitely injective}, title = {(Almost isometric) local retracts in metric spaces}, doi = {10.1016/j.jfa.2024.110627}, author = {Quilis, Andrés and Rueda Zoca, Abraham}, }