Lipschitz Embeddings of Metric Spaces into $c_0$

Let $M$ be a separable metric space. We say that $f=(f_n):M\to c_0$ is a good-$\lambda$-embedding if, whenever $x,y\in M$, $x\mathrm{\ne }y$ implies $d(x,y)\le \mathrm{\parallel }f(x)-f(y)\mathrm{\parallel }$ and, for each $n$, $Lip(f_n)<\lambda$, where $Lip(f_n)$ denotes the Lipschitz constant of $f_n$. We prove that there exists a good-$\lambda$-embedding from $M$ into $c_0$ if and only if $M$ satisfies an internal property called $\pi (\lambda )$. As a consequence, we obtain that for any separable metric space $M$, there exists a good-$2$-embedding from $M$ into $c_0$. These statements slightly extend former results obtained by N. Kalton and G. Lancien, with simplified proofs.