Connectedness in metric frames (Q2487463)

The author adapts a metric defined on a connected locally connected metric space by \textit{G. T. Whyburn} in the classic paper [Am. J. Math. 54, 367--376 (1932; Zbl 0004.16403)] to give a metric diameter for a locally connected metric frame. Using this metric diameter and its associated uniform frame maps, the author proves that the category of uniformly locally connected metric frames and uniform frame maps is reflective in the category of locally connected metric frames and uniform frame maps. Among other ancillary results, the paper establishes that every metric diameter is equivalent to a bounded metric diameter, and that a metric frame is uniformly locally connected as a uniform frame iff it is uniformly locally connected as a metric frame.