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Existence of continuous euclidean embeddings for a weak class of orders

Economics 2021-01-21 v3

Abstract

We prove that if XX is a topological space that admits Debreu's classical utility theorem (eg.\ XX is separable and connected, second countable, etc.), then order relations on XX satisfying milder completeness conditions can be continuously embedded in RI\mathbb R^I for II some index set. In the particular case where XX is a compact metric space, this closes a conjecture of Nishimura \& Ok (2015). We also show that when RI\mathbb R^I is given a non-standard partial order coinciding with Pareto improvement, the analogous embedding theorem fails to hold in the continuous case.

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@article{arxiv.1508.00607,
  title  = {Existence of continuous euclidean embeddings for a weak class of orders},
  author = {Lawrence Carr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00607},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, edited for a mathematical audience