Metric and symmetric spaces

Harley, Peter W.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1974-0336713-4

Metric and symmetric spaces
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1974), 428-430 Request permission

Abstract:

In this paper we give an alternative proof, without reference to Urysohn’s lemma, of the metrization theorem of Bing [2], Nagata [6], and Smirnov [8] via the theory of symmetric spaces as developed by H. Martin in [5].

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