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We study locally compact spaces with an intrinsic metric such that the group of metric similarities is transitive and the group of isometries is not transitive. We suggest an algebraic characterization of such spaces.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Gundyrev, 2015, published in Matematicheskie Trudy, 2015, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 15–26.
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Gundyrev, I.A. The structure of similarity homogeneous locally compact spaces with an intrinsic metric. II. Sib. Adv. Math. 26, 182–189 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1055134416030020
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