Open ball on a metric space

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aliases: [ε-neighborhood, Disk on a metric space]
created: 2021-12-15 11:08:42
modified: 2022-01-30 22:18:33

Let be a metric space.
Given a point and a real number , we define the set

As an open ball on , where is called the center and the radius. It is also called a -neighborhood of . ()

We see that every neighborhood of contains .

See also