Robustness in Metric Spaces over Continuous Quantales and the Hausdorff-Smyth Monad
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Generalized metric spaces are obtained by weakening the requirements (e.g., symmetry) on the distance function and by allowing it to take values in structures (e.g., quantales) that are more general than the set of non-negative real numbers. Quantale-valued metric spaces have gained prominence due to their use in quantitative reasoning on programs/systems, and for defining various notions of behavioral metrics. We investigate imprecision and robustness in the framework of quantale-valued metric spaces, when the quantale is continuous. In particular, we study the relation between the robust topology, which captures robustness of analyses, and the Hausdorff-Smyth hemi-metric. To this end, we define a preorder-enriched monad 𝖯_S, called the Hausdorff-Smyth monad, and when Q is a continuous quantale and X is a Q-metric space, we relate the topology induced by the metric on 𝖯_S(X) with the robust topology on the powerset 𝖯(X) defined in terms of the metric on X.
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