Metrization of probabilistic metric spaces. Applications to fixed point theory and Arzela-Ascoli type theorem

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Abstract: Schweizer, Sklar and Thorp proved in 1960 that a Menger space (G,D,T) under a continuous t-norm T, induce a natural topology au wich is metrizable. We extend this result to any probabilistic metric space (G,D,star) provided that the triangle function star is continuous. We prove in this case, that the topological space (G,au) is uniformly homeomorphic to a (deterministic) metric space (G,sigmaD) for some canonical metric sigmaD on G. As applications, we extend the fixed point theorem of Hicks to probabilistic metric spaces which are not necessarily Menger spaces and we prove a probabilistic Arzela-Ascoli type theorem.


A binary operation on \(\triangle^{+}\) is called a triangle function if and only if it is commutative, associative, non-decreasing in each place, and has \(H_{0}\) as neutral element. Let \((G,D,\star)\) be a probabilistic metric space. The metric \(\sigma_{D}\) on \(G\) is defined canonically using the probabilistic metric \(D\) as follows: for all \(x,y\in G\) \[ \sigma_{D}(x,y):=\sup_{z\in G} d_{L}(D(x,z),D(z,y)):=\sup_{z\in G} d_{L}(\delta_{x}(x,z),\delta_{y}(z,y)):=d_{\infty}(\delta_{x},\delta_{y}). \] Thus, \(\sigma_{D}\) is a metric on \(G\) and for all \(x,y\in G\) \[ d_{L}(D(x,y),H_{0})\leq \sigma_{D}(x,y). \] Using the above concept, the authors give a metrization theorem for probabilistic spaces, some topological and metric properties and some fixed point results well-known in the literature.











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