On partial metric spaces and partial cone metric spaces

Year 2017, Volume: 46 Issue: 6, 1069 - 1075, 01.12.2017

Seithuti Moshokoa

Abstract

It this article we shall show that partial metric spaces and partial cone metric spaces are quasi-uniformizable and hence quasi-metrizable. Finally,
an application to the Banach’s fixed point theorem will be presented in this context.

Keywords

Partial metric space, Partial cone metric space, quasi metric space, Quasi uniform space, Fixed point

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