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In this survey we present a generalization of the notion of metric space and some applications to discrete structures as graphs, ordered sets and transition systems. Results in that direction started in the middle eighties based on the impulse given by Quilliot (1983). Graphs and ordered sets were considered as kind of metric spaces, where - instead of real numbers - the values of the distance functions $d$ belong to an ordered semigroup equipped with an involution. In this frame, maps preserving graphs or posets are exactly the nonexpansive mappings (that is the maps $f$ such that $d(f(x),f(y))leq d(x,y)$, for all $x,y$). It was observed that many known results on retractions and fixed point property for classical metric spaces (whose morphisms are the nonexpansive mappings) are also valid for these spaces. For example, the characterization of absolute retracts, by Aronszajn and Panitchpakdi (1956), the construction of the injective envelope by Isbell (1965) and the fixed point theorem of Sine and Soardi (1979) translate into the Banaschewski-Bruns theorem (1967), the MacNeille completion of a poset (1933) and the famous Tarski fixed point theorem (1955). This prompted an analysis of several classes of discrete structures from a metric point of view. In this paper, we report the results obtained over the years with a particular emphasis on the fixed point property.
We extend to binary relational systems the notion of compact and normal structure, introduced by J.P.Penot for metric spaces, and we prove that for the involutive and reflexive ones, every commuting family of relational homomorphisms has a common fix
A classic theorem of Euclidean geometry asserts that any noncollinear set of $n$ points in the plane determines at least $n$ distinct lines. Chen and Chvatal conjectured that this holds for an arbitrary finite metric space, with a certain natural def
This article provides a link diagram to visualize relations between two ordered sets representing precedences on decision-making options or solutions to strategic form games. The diagram consists of floating loops whose any two loops cross just twice
This paper studies the problem of upper bounding the number of independent sets in a graph, expressed in terms of its degree distribution. For bipartite regular graphs, Kahn (2001) established a tight upper bound using an information-theoretic approa
We establish a list of characterizations of bounded twin-width for hereditary, totally ordered binary structures. This has several consequences. First, it allows us to show that a (hereditary) class of matrices over a finite alphabet either contains