Isometric rigidity and Fra\"iss\'e properties of Orlicz sequence spaces

Abstract

We provide an approximate version of a rigidity result by Randrianantoanina: for a large class of Orlicz sequence spaces, almost isometric embeddings almost preserve disjointness. In specific cases, we can even prove that such embeddings almost preserve basic vectors. As a consequence, we prove that some Orlicz sequences spaces are guarded Fra\"iss\'e but not $\omega$-categorical; moreover, they do not contain copies of $\ell_2$ and their age is not closed. This answers a question of C\'uth-de Rancourt-Doucha.