Uniqueness of spaces pretangent to metric spaces at infinity

Abstract

We find the necessary and sufficient conditions under which an unbounded metric space \(X\) has, at infinity, a unique pretangent space \(\Omega^{X}_{\infty,\tilde{r}}\) for every scaling sequence \(\tilde{r}\). In particular, it is proved that \(\Omega^{X}_{\infty,\tilde{r}}\) is unique and isometric to the closure of \(X\) for every logarithmic spiral \(X\) and every \(\tilde{r}\). It is also shown that the uniqueness of pretangent spaces to subsets of a real line is closely related to the ''asymptotic asymmetry'' of these subsets.