Ding Guanggui, Huang Senzhong
An (F)-spaceE is said to be locally midpoint constricted (in short,Imp-constricted) if there exists some δ>0 such that D(A/2)<D(A) for every subset A of E with 0<D(A)≤δ,where D(A) denotes the diameter of A.Our main result goes as follow:Let E be an Imp-constricted (F)-space and U an open connected subset of E.Assume that T:U|→F is an isometry (i.e.,a distance-preserving map) which maps U onto an open subset of the (F)-spaceF.Then T can be extended to an affine homeomorphism from E toF.Also,some other results about the question whether each isometry between two (F)-spaces is affine are obtained.