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Asked 27th Feb, 2017
Why an infinite product of metrics are not metric spaces? Any counter Example?
I would like to ask that why an infinite product of metric spaces are not metric. If someone have any counter example please share it .Thanks
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Thank you so much Dear Professor Vladimir Kadets and Professor Hamid Reza Salimi Moghaddam for your valuable time and answer.
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Holon Institute of Technology
This happens when one considers a product of uncountable many metric spaces. A typical example is X = [0,1][0,1] - the product of continuum number of copies of [0,1]. X can be identified with the space of all functions f acting from [0,1] to [0,1] equipped with the topology of pointwise convergence. This topology is not metrizable by many reasons. One of them is the following: X is a product of compacts, so it is compact. The cardinality of a compact metric space cannot be greater than continuum, but the cardinality of this X is greater than continuum.
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University of Isfahan
Dear Muhammad,
As Prof. Kadets mentioned, It happens when you consider a product of uncountable metric spaces. Another example is an uncountable product of R with itself. In fact an uncountable product of R with itself is not metrizable because it does not satisfy the sequence lemma. You can find it in chapter 2 of the following book:
J. R. Munkres, Topology, second edition 2007.
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