Metrics defined via discrepancy functions

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2006.12.008MaRDI QIDQ880133zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matt Insall, Włodzimierz J. Charatonik

Publication date 10 May 2007

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2006.12.008

zbMATH Keywords

Discrepancy FunctionsHyperspaceMetricPseudometricQuasimetricSymmetricWhitney Map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence in general topology (sequences, filters, limits, convergence spaces, nets, etc.) (54A20) Hyperspaces in general topology (54B20) Topological spaces with richer structures (54E99)

Review text

In this paper the authors introduce the notion of a discrepancy function. A discrepancy function is a real extended, non-negative function \(\omega\) defined on certain pairs \((A,U)\) (where \(A\subset U\)) of subsets of a set \(X\) with the property that, for fixed \(A\), the function \(\omega\) takes arbitrarily small values as \(U\) varies. They present a number of natural examples of discrepancy functions and show how they can be used to define traditional pseudo-metrics, quasimetrics and metrics on hyperspaces of topological spaces and measure spaces.

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