Quasi-metric and metric spaces
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- by Viktor Schroeder
- Conform. Geom. Dyn. 10 (2006), 355-360
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4173-06-00155-X
- Published electronically: December 26, 2006
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Abstract:
We give a short review of a construction of Frink to obtain a metric space from a quasi-metric space. By an example we illustrate the limits of the construction.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Viktor Schroeder
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
- MR Author ID: 157030
- Email: vschroed@math.unizh.ch
- Received by editor(s): July 17, 2006
- Published electronically: December 26, 2006
- Additional Notes: The author was supported in part by SNSF
- © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Conform. Geom. Dyn. 10 (2006), 355-360
- MSC (2000): Primary 54E35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4173-06-00155-X
- MathSciNet review: 2268484