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# LOCALIC COMPLETION OF GENERALIZED METRIC SPACES I

Vickers, Steven (2005) LOCALIC COMPLETION OF GENERALIZED METRIC SPACES I. Theory and Applications of Categories, 14 (15). pp. 328-356. ISSN 1201 - 561X

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Following Lawvere, a generalized metric space (gms) is a set X equipped with a metric map from X2 to the interval of upper reals (approximated from above but not from below) from 0 to ∞ inclusive, and satisfying the zero self-distance law and the triangle inequality.
We describe a completion of gms’s by Cauchy filters of formal balls. In terms of Lawvere’s approach using categories enriched over [0,∞], the Cauchy filters are equivalent to flat left modules.
The completion generalizes the usual one for metric spaces. For quasimetrics it is equivalent to the Yoneda completion in its netwise form due to K¨unzi and Schellekens and thereby gives a new and explicit characterization of the points of the Yoneda completion.
Non-expansive functions between gms’s lift to continuous maps between the completions.
Various examples and constructions are given, including finite products.
The completion is easily adapted to produce a locale, and that part of the work is constructively valid. The exposition illustrates the use of geometric logic to enable
point-based reasoning for locales.

Type of Work: Article 2005 (Publication) Schools (1998 to 2008) > School of Computer Science Computer Science QA Mathematics University of Birmingham TAC 181 YES

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