Kernels, Distances, and Bridges
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to study more general real-valued functions of two variables than just metrics on a set X. We concentrate mainly on the classes of distances and almost distances. We also introduce the notion of a bridge on the disjoint union of two sets and show that it induces a symmetric distance on the disjoint union.
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