Discrete metric and topology/Metric space definition

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Let [ilmath]X[/ilmath] be a set. The discrete[1] metric, or trivial metric[2] is the metric defined as follows:

  • [math]d:X\times X\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0} [/math] with [math]d:(x,y)\mapsto\left\{\begin{array}{lr}0 & \text{if }x=y \\1 & \text{otherwise}\end{array}\right.[/math]

However any strictly positive value will do for the [ilmath]x\ne y[/ilmath] case. For example we could define [ilmath]d[/ilmath] as:

  • [math]d:(x,y)\mapsto\left\{\begin{array}{lr}0 & \text{if }x=y \\v & \text{otherwise}\end{array}\right.[/math]
    • Where [ilmath]v[/ilmath] is some arbitrary member of [ilmath]\mathbb{R}_{> 0} [/ilmath][Note 1] - traditionally (as mentioned) [ilmath]v=1[/ilmath] is used.

Notes

  1. Note the strictly greater than 0 requirement for [ilmath]v[/ilmath]

References

  1. Todo - this is how I was taught, can't find source
  2. Functional Analysis - George Bachman and Lawrence Narici