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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451937603321

Autore

Alsina Claudi

Titolo

Associative functions [[electronic resource] ] : triangular norms and copulas / / Claudi Alsina, Maurice J. Frank, Berthold Schweizer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006

ISBN

1-281-91934-9

9786611919344

981-277-420-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchweizerB (Berthold)

FrankMaurice J

Disciplina

515/.7

Soggetti

Functional equations

Associative law (Mathematics)

Mathematical analysis

Functional equations - Study and teaching

Associative law (Mathematics) - Study and teaching

Mathematical analysis - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Special symbols -- 1. Introduction. 1.1. Historical notes. 1.2. Preliminaries. 1.3. t-norms and s-norms. 1.4. Copulas -- 2. Representation theorems for associative functions. 2.1. Continuous, Archimedean t-norms. 2.2. Additive and multiplicative generators. 2.3. Extension to arbitrary closed intervals. 2.4. Continuous, non-Archimedean t-norms. 2.5. Non-continuous t-norms. 2.6. Families of t-norms. 2.7. Other representation theorems. 2.8. Related functional equations -- 3. Functional equations involving t-norms. 3.1. Simultaneous associativity. 3.2. n-duality. 3.3. Simple characterizations of Min. 3.4. Homogeneity. 3.5. Distributivity. 3.6. Conical t-norms. 3.7. Rational Archimedean t-norms. 3.8. Extension and sets of uniqueness -- 4. Inequalities involving t-norms. 4.1. Notions of concavity and convexity. 4.2. The dominance relation. 4.3. Uniformly close associative



functions. 4.4. Serial iterates and n-copulas. 4.5. Positivity.