On the existence of utility functions

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(89)90058-9zbMath0677.90006OpenAlexW4245698593MaRDI QIDQ1123790

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(89)90058-9

zbMATH Keywords

existence theorems continuous utility functions preordered topological spaces rich set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Linearly ordered topological spaces, generalized ordered spaces, and partially ordered spaces (54F05) Utility theory (91B16)

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