Some remarks on partial metric spaces (Q2186278)

In the present paper, some topological properties of partial metric spaces are investigated. Section 1 is introductory. In Section 2, after studying some general relationships between metric-like partial metric spaces, sequentially isosceles partial metric spaces and sequentially equilateral partial metric spaces, a special variant of Urysohn's lemma is established in the partial metric setting. In Section 3, the authors show that a bounded partial metric space can be isometrically embedded into a connected and locally connected partial metric space. Finally, in Section 4, it is shown that a partial metric space is compact iff it is complete and totally bounded. Further aspects occasioned by these developments are also being discussed.