The Euclidean distance construction of order homomorphisms (Q1100990): Difference between revisions

The Euclidean distance technique of Arrow and Hahn is used to construct an upper semicontinuous order homomorphism (partial utility function) from (X,\(\succ)\) to \(({\mathbb{R}},>)\), where X is a closed, convex subset of \({\mathbb{R}}^ N\) and \(\succ\) is a continuous strict partial order on X. It is also shown that the order homomorphism is upper semicontinuous as a function on \(X\times {\mathcal P}(X)\), where \({\mathcal P}(X)\) is the set of continuous strict partial orders on X, taken with the topology of closed convergence.