Probabilistic independence with respect to upper and lower conditional probabilities assigned by Hausdorff outer and inner measures (Q2379842)

The aim of the present paper is to study the probabilistic independence with respect to upper and lower conditional probabilities assigned by Hausdorff outer and inner measures especially in the case that the conditioning events have positive and finite Hausdorff outer and inner measures in their dimension. Furthermore, in order to assure that, logical independence is a necessary condition of stochastic independence, the author introduces the definitions of \(s\)-independence and \(s\)-irrelevance with respect to these upper and lower conditional probabilities. The definition of \(s\)-irrelevance and the definition of \(s\)-conditional irrelevance are introduced in order to prove that \(s\)-irrelevance is a sufficient condition for strong independence introduced for credal sets while a generalized factorization property is proposed as a necessary condition of \(s\)-conditional irrelevance. Moreover sufficient conditions are given for finding out the equivalence between the two above-mentioned types of irrelevance. Many examples are provided to prove special cases of the results such as these regarding the case where the \(\sigma\)-field of the conditioning events is the \(\sigma\)-field of countable and co-countable subsets of \([0,1]\), the tail \(\sigma\)-field and the \(\sigma\)-field of symmetric events, these regarding that sconditional irrelevance and \(s\)-irrelevance are not related etc.