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A generalization of metric space is presented which is shown to admit a theory strongly related to that of ordinary metric spaces. To avoid the topological effects related to dropping any of the axioms of metric space, first a new, and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-20 Ittay Weiss

In spacetime physics, we frequently need to consider a set of all spaces (`universes') as a whole. In particular, the concept of `closeness' between spaces is essential. However, there has been no established mathematical theory so far…

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For any small quantaloid $\Q$, there is a new quantaloid $\D(\Q)$ of diagonals in $\Q$. If $\Q$ is divisible then so is $\D(\Q)$ (and vice versa), and then it is particularly interesting to compare categories enriched in $\Q$ with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Dirk Hofmann , Isar Stubbe

Magnitude homology is an $\mathbf{R}^+$-graded homology theory of metric spaces that captures information on the complexity of geodesics. Here we address the question: when are two metric spaces magnitude homology equivalent, in the sense…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Adrián Doña Mateo , Tom Leinster

Hilbert space combines the properties of two fundamentally different types of mathematical spaces: vector space and metric space. While the vector-space aspects of Hilbert space, such as formation of linear combinations of state vectors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 I. D'Amico , J. P. Coe , V. V. Franca , K. Capelle

We prove a number of results involving categories enriched over \textsc{CMet}, the category of complete metric spaces with possibly infinite distances. The category \textsc{CPMet} of intrinsic complete metric spaces is locally…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Alexandru Chirvasitu

We study the metric structure of walks on graphs, understood as Lipschitz sequences. To this end, a weighted metric is introduced to handle sequences, enabling the definition of distances between walks based on stepwise vertex distances and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 R. Arnau , A. González Cortés , E. A. Sánchez Pérez , S. Sanjuan

A new approach is suggested to the problem of quantising causal sets, or topologies, or other such models for space-time (or space). The starting point is the observation that entities of this type can be regarded as objects in a category…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Isham

`Categorification' is the process of replacing equations by isomorphisms. We describe some of the ways a thoroughgoing emphasis on categorification can simplify and unify mathematics. We begin with elementary arithmetic, where the category…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John C. Baez , James Dolan

In a general triangulated category, the finiteness of the finitistic dimension serves as a prerequisite for a categorical obstruction, via the singularity category, to the existence of bounded $t$-structures. In this paper, we investigate…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hongxing Chen , Xiaohu Chen , Jinbi Zhang

The phenomenon of concentration of measure on high dimensional structures is usually stated in terms of a metric space with a Borel measure, also called an mm-space. We extend some of the mm-space concepts to the setting of a quasi-metric…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aleksandar Stojmirovic

The paper introduces the class of O-metric spaces, a novel generalization of metric-type spaces, classifying almost all possible metric types into upward and downward O-metrics. We list some topologies arising from O-metrics and discuss…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Hallowed O. Olaoluwa , Aminat O. Ige , Johnson O. Olaleru

We classify the metric spaces that can be approximated by finite homogeneous ones.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Tsachik Gelander

The question in the title is discussed briefly, with emphasis on a few basic examples and their properties.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-12 Stephen Semmes

The focus of this article is on metric completions of triangulated categories arising in the representation theory of hereditary finite dimensional algebras and commutative rings. We explicitly describe all completions of bounded derived…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Cyril Matoušek

The distance on a set is a comparative function. The smaller the distance between two elements of that set, the closer, or more similar, those elements are. Fr\'echet axiomatized the distance into what is today known as a metric. In this…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Samer Assaf

We observe that the category of topological space, uniform spaces, and simplicial sets are all, in a natural way, full subcategories of the same larger category, namely the simplicial category of filters; this is, moreover, implicit in the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Misha Gavrilovich

Hepworth, Willerton, Leinster and Shulman introduced the magnitude homology groups for enriched categories, in particular, for metric spaces. The purpose of this paper is to describe the magnitude homology group of a metric space in terms…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Ryuki Kaneta , Masahiko Yoshinaga

This paper presents a distance function between sets based on an average of distances between their elements. The distance function is a metric if the sets are non-empty finite subsets of a metric space. It can be applied to produce various…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Osamu Fujita

Metric spaces $(X, d)$ are ubiquitous objects in mathematics and computer science that allow for capturing (pairwise) distance relationships $d(x, y)$ between points $x, y \in X$. Because of this, it is natural to ask what useful…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Willow Barkan-Vered , Huck Bennett , Amir Nayyeri