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Remarks on b-Metric and metric-preserving functions

  • Tammatada Khemaratchatakumthorn and Prapanpong Pongsriiam EMAIL logo
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Mathematica Slovaca
From the journal Mathematica Slovaca Volume 68 Issue 5

Abstract

We introduce new classes of functions related to metric-preserving functions and b-metrics. We investigate their properties and compare them to those of metric-preserving functions.

MSC 2010: Primary 26A21; 26A30; Secondary 26A99
Keywords: b-metric; metric-preserving function

  1. Communicated by Ján Borsík

Acknowledgement

We are very grateful to both referees for giving us many suggestions which improve the quality of this article. The first author receives financial support from Faculty of Science Silpakorn University, contract number SRF-PRG-2559-01. The second author currently receives financial support jointly from The Thailand Research Fund and Faculty of Science Silpakorn University, grant number RSA5980040.

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Received: 2017-02-08
Accepted: 2017-07-02
Published Online: 2018-10-20
Published in Print: 2018-10-25

© 2018 Mathematical Institute Slovak Academy of Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2017-0163
Keywords for this article
b-metric; metric-preserving function

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  8. Generalization of Ostrowski inequality for convex functions
  9. On microscopic sets and Fubini Property in all directions
  10. New subfamily of meromorphic multivalent starlike functions in circular domain involving q-differential operator
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  13. Remarks on a semilinear system in ℝn motivated by difference equations
  14. Oscillation tests for difference equations with several non-monotone deviating arguments
  15. On the regularity of one-sided fractional maximal functions
  16. A note on a Banach’s fixed point theorem in b-rectangular metric space and b-metric space
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