Is there a standard construction of a metric on one-point compactification of a proper metric space?
Comments:
- A metric space is proper if all bounded closed sets are compact.
- Standard means found in literature.
A possible construction:
Here is a simplification of the construction given here (thanks to Jonas for ref). Let $d$ be the original metric. Fix a point $p$ and set $h(x)=1/(1+d(p,x))$. Then take the metric $$\hat d(x,y)=\min\{d(x,y),\\,h(x)+h(y)\},\ \ \ \ \hat d(\infty,x)=h(x)$$
- Is this a standard construction?
- Does it have a name?