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Conference in Honor of Alexander Arhangelskii
June 29 - July 3, 2003
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Brooklyn, NY, USA

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Raushan Buzyakova, Ralph Kopperman, Gerald Itzkowitz, Raymond Gittings, Susan Andima, Oleg Pavlov, Oleg Okunev, Dennis Burke, Vladimir Uspenskii, Witold Marciszewski, Stephen Watson, Hans-Peter Kunzi

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Partial metrics
by
Ralph Kopperman
City College, CUNY

A partial metric is a metric except in that the distance from a point to itself need not be 0. We discuss the philosophy behind and usefulness of such a notion. Then we discuss quasimetrizability of spaces and completion of quasimetric spaces.

Date received: June 17, 2003

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