Complete metric spaces with property (Z) are length metric spaces

Antonio Avilés, Gonzalo Martínez-Cervantes

Published 2018-08-02Version 1

We prove that every complete metric space with property (Z) is a length space. These answers questions posed by Garc\'{i}a-Lirola, Proch\'{a}zka and Rueda Zoca, and by Becerra Guerrero, L\'{o}pez-P\'{e}rez and Rueda Zoca, related to the structure of Lipschitz-free Banach spaces of metric spaces.