A study on quasi-pseudometrics

Year 2017, Volume: 46 Issue: 1, 33 - 52, 01.02.2017

Natasha Demetriou Hans-peter A. Künzi

Abstract

We study some aspects of the space $QPM(X)$ of all quasi-pseudometrics on a set $X$ equipped with the extended $T_0$-quasi-metric $A_X(f,g)=\sup_{(x,y)\in X\times X}(f(x,y)-g(x,y))$ whenever $f,g\in QPM(X)$. We observe that this space is bicomplete and exhibit various closed
subspaces of $( QPM(X), \tau((A_X)^s))$.

In the second part of the paper, as a rough way to measure the asymmety of a quasi-pseudometric $f$ on a set $X$, we investigate some properties of the value $(A_X)^s(f,f^{-1}).

Keywords

quasi-pseudometric, $T_0$-quasi-metric, nonnegatively weightable quasi-pseudometric

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