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``Metric spaces that cannot be made vector spaces'' by anon678 on 2008-01-19 15:53:48
Is there some notion of what kind of metric spaces can be turned into vector spaces by finding suitable basis vectors? In other words, given a metric space, is there a test that can say no vector space can exist that conforms to the distance function?
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