Non-Archimedean Probability
Probability
2021-07-30 v1
Abstract
We propose an alternative approach to probability theory closely related to the framework of numerosity theory: non-Archimedean probability (NAP). In our approach, unlike in classical probability theory, all subsets of an infinite sample space are measurable and zero- and unit-probability events pose no particular epistemological problems. We use a non-Archimedean field as the range of the probability function. As a result, the property of countable additivity in Kolmogorov's axiomatization of probability is replaced by a different type of infinite additivity.
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@article{arxiv.1106.1524,
title = {Non-Archimedean Probability},
author = {Vieri Benci and Leon Horsten and Sylvia Wenmackers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.1524},
year = {2021}
}
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34 pages