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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2017 1 b i Solution by
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Put . Every summand is nonnegative and at most , so the series defining converges and . Symmetry follows from each . If , every nonnegative summand is zero, hence every and . The converse is immediate.
For the triangle inequality, first observe that for ,Monotonicity of and the triangle inequality for therefore giveMultiply by and sum the convergent nonnegative series. This proves the required triangle inequality for , so is a metric. The construction combines a bounded metric transform with a countable product metric.
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