Some results on isometric composition operators on Lipschitz spaces

Abstract

Given two metric spaces M and N we study, motivated by a question of N. Weaver, conditions under which a composition operator $$C_\phi :{\mathrm {Lip}}_0(M)\longrightarrow {\mathrm {Lip}}_0(N)$$ C ϕ : Lip 0 ( M ) ⟶ Lip 0 ( N ) is an isometry depending on the properties of $$\phi $$ ϕ . We obtain a complete characterisation of those operators $$C_\phi $$ C ϕ in terms of a property of the function $$\phi $$ ϕ in the case that $$B_{{\mathcal {F}}(M)}$$ B F ( M ) is the closed convex hull of its preserved extreme points. Also, we obtain necessary condition for $$C_\phi $$ C ϕ being an isometry in the case that M is geodesic.