A Solution to the Completion Problem for Quasi-Pseudometric Spaces
Author(s) -
Athanasios Andrikopoulos
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of mathematics and mathematical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1687-0425
pISSN - 0161-1712
DOI - 10.1155/2013/278381
Subject(s) - mathematics , completeness (order theory) , equivalence (formal languages) , matrix (chemical analysis) , sequence (biology) , path (computing) , combinatorics , discrete mathematics , algebra over a field , pure mathematics , mathematical analysis , materials science , biology , computer science , composite material , genetics , programming language
The different notions of Cauchy sequence and completeness proposed in the literature for quasi-pseudometric spaces do not provide a satisfactory theory of completeness and completion for all quasi-pseudometric spaces. In this paper, we introduce a notion of completeness which is classical in the sense that it is made up of equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences and constructs a completion for any given T0 quasi-pseudometric space. This new completion theory extends the existing completion theory for metric spaces and satisfies the requirements posed by Doitchinov for a nice theory of completeness
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