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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817280503321

Autore

Zaustinskiy Eugene

Titolo

Spaces with non-symmetric distance / / Eugene M. Zaustinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1959

ISBN

0-8218-9977-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (91 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; ; number 34

Soggetti

Generalized spaces

Distance geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Introduction""; ""PART I. THE BASIC CONCEPTS""; ""1. General Metric Spaces""; ""2. Compact and Finitely Compact General Metric Spaces""; ""3. Curves and their Lengths. Segments""; ""4. Extremals""; ""5. Example. The Minkowski Geometry""; ""6. Example. The Quasihyperbolic Geometry""; ""7. Local Homogeneity of E-spaces. The one-dimensional E-spaces""; ""PART II. PERPENDICULARS AND PARALLELS""; ""8. Convexity of Spheres and Perpendicularity""; ""9. Limitspheres and Corays""; ""10. Asymptotes and Parallels""; ""PART III. MOTIONS IN E-SPACES""; ""11. Axial Motions in E-spaces""

""12. Translations in Straight E-surfaces""""13. Motions in Compact E-spaces""; ""PART IV. E-SPACES WITH TRANSITIVE GROUPS OF MOTIONS""; ""14. E-spaces with Pairwise Transitive Groups of Motions""; ""15. The Determination of all E-surfaces with Transitive Groups of Motions""; ""PART V. E-SPACES WITH NON-POSITIVE CURVATURE""; ""16. Introduction""; ""17. Straightness of the Universal Covering Space""; ""Appendix I. The Funk Geometry""; ""Appendix II. A Quasihyperbolic Plane""; ""References""