Inadequacy of the linear vector space formalism at metric approach to

geometry 

Yuri A. Rylov

Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Updated October 31, 2013

abstract

It is shown that formalism of linear vector space is inadequate at the metric approach to geometry, when geometry is described completely in terms of the distance function $d$, or in terms of the world function $\sigma =d^{2}/2$. Operations of the linear vector space appear to be ambiguous, if they are introduced at the metric approach to geometry. 

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