Max-min measures on ultrametric spaces

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Abstract: The ultrametrization of the set of all probability measures of compact support on the ultrametric spaces was first defined by Hartog and de Vink. In this paper we consider a similar construction for the so called max-min measures on the ultrametric spaces. In particular, we prove that the functors max-min measures and idempotent measures are isomorphic. However, we show that this is not the case for the monads generated by these functors.


With every topological space \(X\) the authors associate a set \(J_\omega(X)\) whose elements they call max-min measures of finite support on \(X\). They show that if \(X\) is an ultrametric space, then \(J_\omega(X)\) can be equipped with a canonical ultrametric in such a way that the correspondence \(X\mapsto J_\omega(X)\) becomes an endofunctor, denoted by \(J_\omega\), of the category UMET of ultrametric spaces and nonexpanding maps. Moreover, they find natural transformations \(\delta: 1_{\text{UMET}}\to J_\omega\) and \(\xi: J_\omega\circ J_\omega\to J_\omega\) and prove that \((J_\omega, \delta, \xi)\) is a monad in UMET. It turns out that \(J_\omega\) is isomorphic to the functor \(I_\omega\) of idempotent measures of compact support that was studied by \textit{M. Zarichnyi} [Izv. Math. 74, No. 3, 481--499 (2010; Zbl 1220.18002)]. However, the monad \((J_\omega,\delta,\xi)\) is not isomorphic to the monad generated by \(I_\omega\). By passing from \(J_\omega(X)\) to its metric completion, similar results are obtained for the category CUMET of complete ultrametric spaces and nonexpanding maps.











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