We give a brief survey of many of the high-lights of our present understanding of the young subject of quantum metric spaces, and of quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance between them. We include examples. My interest in developing the theory of compact quantum metric spaces was stimulated by certain statements in the high-energy physics and string-theory literature, concerning non-commutative spac...

It is shown that the space X [0,1], of continuous maps [0, 1] → X with the compact-open topology, is not locally compact for any space X having a nonconstant path of closed points. For a T1-space X, it follows that X [0,1] is locally compact if and only if X is locally compact and totally path-disconnected. AMS Classification: 54C35, 54E45, 55P35, 18B30, 18D15

In 1998, S. Romaguera [13] introduced the notion of cofinally Čech-complete spaces equivalent to spaces which we later called ultracomplete spaces. We define the subset of points of a space X at which X is not locally compact and call it an nlc set. In 1999, Garćıa-Máynez and S. Romaguera [6] proved that every cofinally Čech-complete space has a bounded nlc set. In 2001, D. Buhagiar [1] proved ...