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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

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    Not exactly the same question but you would probably be interested by Nate Ackerman's answer in this question: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/104646/topological-spaces-determined-by-generalized-metric-spaces – Taladris Dec 14 '16 at 05:58
  • Fucken legend!! thanks to that I was able to find the answer to my question. It is a generalised metric space (I was google searching the wrong terms!)

    Thanks so much!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised_metric

    –  Dec 14 '16 at 06:03
  • This was also asked here where the answer takes the metric into ordered abelian groups – Ross Millikan Dec 14 '16 at 06:42

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