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Product Metric on the Cartesian Product of Two Metric Spaces

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Let (X,dX)(X,d_X) and (Y,dY)(Y,d_Y) be metric spaces, and let X×YX\times Y be the Cartesian product of the sets XX and YY. Let R\mathbb{R} be the set of real numbers with the order ≤\le of its ordered field structure, which is in particular a total order.

The product metric on X×YX\times Y is the function

dX×Y:(X×Y)×(X×Y)→Rd_{X\times Y}:(X\times Y)\times(X\times Y)\to\mathbb{R}

whose value at a pair of points (x1,y1),(x2,y2)∈X×Y(x_1,y_1),(x_2,y_2)\in X\times Y is the maximum

dX×Y((x1,y1),(x2,y2))=max⁡{ dX(x1,x2),  dY(y1,y2) }.d_{X\times Y}\bigl((x_1,y_1),(x_2,y_2)\bigr)=\max\{\,d_X(x_1,x_2),\;d_Y(y_1,y_2)\,\}.

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