Entourages, Density, Cauchy Maps, and Completion

摘要

We study uniformities and quasi-uniformities (uniformities without the symmetry axiom) in the common language of entourages. The techniques developed allow for a general theory in which uniformities are the symmetric part. In particular, we have a natural notion of Cauchy map independent of symmetry and a very simple general completion procedure (perhaps more transparent and simpler than the usual symmetric one).