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# Distance Geometry in Quasihypermetric Spaces. III

(Impact Factor: 0.68). 04/2011; 284(5-6). DOI: 10.1002/mana.200810216
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Let (X, d) be a compact metric space and let denote the space of all finite signed Borel measures on X. Define by
and set where μ ranges over the collection of signed measures in of total mass 1. This paper, with two earlier papers [Peter Nickolas and Reinhard Wolf, Distance geometry in quasihypermetric spaces. I and II], investigates the geometric constant M(X) and its relationship to the metric properties of X and the functional-analytic properties of a certain subspace of when equipped with a natural semi-inner product. Specifically, this paper explores links between the properties of M(X) and metric embeddings of X, and the properties of M(X) when X is a finite metric space. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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• "It is straightforward to confirm that the linear span of these functions in C([a, b]) is exactly the subspace of piecewise linear continuous functions, which is dense in C([a, b]), and it follows that im T is dense in C([a, b]). Since M([a, b]) = (b − a)/2 < ∞ (see Lemma 3.5 of [5] or Corollary 3.2 of [27]), we have the following: "
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