On the commutation of generalized means on probability spaces
Abstract
Let and be real-valued continuous injections defined on a non-empty real interval , and let and be probability spaces in each of which there is at least one measurable set whose measure is strictly between and . We say that is a -switch if, for every -measurable function for which is contained in a compact subset of , it holds where is the inverse of the corestriction of to , and similarly for . We prove that this notion is well-defined, by establishing that the above functional equation is well-posed (the equation can be interpreted as a permutation of generalized means and raised as a problem in the theory of decision making under uncertainty), and show that is a -switch if and only if for some , .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.01139,
title = {On the commutation of generalized means on probability spaces},
author = {Paolo Leonetti and Janusz Matkowski and Salvatore Tringali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01139},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
9 pages, no figures. Fixed minor details. Final version to appear in Indagationes Mathematicae