All the definitions I've found on line for a metric space is that a Metric Space is an ordered pair (M, p) where M is a non-empty set and p is a distance function where,
$p: M \times M \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $
I was curious if this could be further generalised to the subset of all positive value in any arbitrary ordered field F, i.e.
$p : M \times M \rightarrow F^{+}$
Where $F^{+} = \{f \in F \: |\: f \geq_{F} 0_{F}\}$
With $0_{F}$ being the additive inverse for $F$ and
$\geq_{F}$ is the greater than or equal operator for $F$.
Any tips/suggestions/comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, David
Thanks so much!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised_metric
– Dec 14 '16 at 06:03