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Signal Metrics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

William F. Darsow*
Affiliation:
Illinois Institute of Technology
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a generalization of metric space that arises naturally out of the notion of signal function as it occurs, for example, in (5). In §§ 2-5, the basic definitions and motivation are given. In §§ 6 and 7 several elementary topological properties are proved, and in §§ 8 and 9 an important example from special relativity is developed.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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