On the existence of m-norms in vector spaces over valued fields

Abstract

Gähler (Untersuchungen über verallgemeinerte m-metrische Räume. I”. German. Math Nachr 40, 165–189, 1969) investigated m-metric spaces and in particular m-normed spaces over the field of reals. Here the existence of m-norms will be investigated and this in the more general setting of vector spaces over arbitrary non-trivial valued fields.