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On the existence of a metric for path-spaces of order two

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar

    V. Seetharaman

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(Communicated by Prof. A. Narasinga Rao, Annamalainagar)

I express my thanks to Prof. D. D. Kosambi for his kind guidance and helpful suggestions.

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Seetharaman, V. On the existence of a metric for path-spaces of order two. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 12, 399 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03172586

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