Tingley's problem: does every surjective isometry between unit spheres of Banach spaces extend to a linear isometry?
Theorem 1.1: if are nonzero real Banach spaces and is a surjective isometry, then , is a surjective real-linear isometry, the unique linear extension of . No separability, reflexivity, smoothness, strict convexity or finite-dimensionality is assumed. For complex spaces only real linearity is concluded. The proof uses a maximal-defect argument, common supports an…