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On the set of distances between points of a general metric space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. S. Besicovitch  and
S. J. Taylor
A. S. Besicovitch
Affiliation:
Trinity CollegeCambridge
S. J. Taylor
Affiliation:
PeterhouseCambridge
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The well-known Steinhaus theorem (2) with respect to the set of distances of linear sets of positive Lebesgue measure has been generalized to the case of linearly measurable subsets of rectifiable curves in the Euclidean plane by Besicovitch and Miller (1). An extension of the theorem to rectifiable curves in Euclidean n-space is immediate. Prof. A. P. Morse has suggested the problem as to whether or not the theorem still remains true in a general metric space. By defining a particular curve ℒ in a metric space we prove that the answer to this question is in the negative.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 1952 , pp. 209 - 214
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1952

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(1)Besicovitch, A. S. and Miller, D. S.On the set of distances between the points of a Caratheodory linearly measurable plane set. Proc. Lond. math. Soc. (2), 50 (1948), 305–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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