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Moving closer: contractive maps on discrete metric spaces and graphs

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2010-11-19 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We consider discrete metric spaces and we look for non-constant contractions. We introduce the notion of contractive map and we characterize the spaces with non-constant contractive maps. We provide some examples to discussion the possible relations between contractions, contractive maps and constant functions. Finally we apply the main result to the subgraphs of a non-oriented, connected graph.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4163,
  title  = {Moving closer: contractive maps on discrete metric spaces and graphs},
  author = {Fabio Zucca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4163},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures