%0 Journal Article
%T Contraction of a Generalized Metric Structure
%A Guy Wallet
%J Mathematics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%X In some scientific fields, a scaling is able to modify the topology of an observed object. Our goal in the present work is to introduce a new formalism adapted to the mathematical representation of this kind of phenomenon. To this end, we introduce a new metric structure - the galactic spaces - which depends on an ordered field extension of R. Moreover, some natural transformations of the category of galactic spaces, the contractions, are of particular interest: they generalize usual homotheties, they have a ratio which may be an infinitesimal, they are able to modify the topology and they satisfy a nice composition rule. With the help of nonstandard extensions we can associate to any metric space an infinite family of galactic spaces; lastly, we study some limit properties of this family.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1898v1