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On the continuity of probabilistic distance

Functional Analysis 2018-10-03 v1

Abstract

The famous result of B.~Schweizer and A.~Sklar [Pacific J Math 10(1960) 313--334 - Theorem 8.2] asserts that, given a probabilistic metric space (X,F,t)(X,\mathcal F,t), F={Fp,q:p,qX}\mathcal F=\{F_{p,q}:p,q\in X\}, we have Fpn,qn(x)Fp,q(x)F_{p_n,q_n}(x)\to F_{p,q}(x) provided that Fp,qF_{p,q} is continuous at xx and tt is continuous and stronger then {\L}ukasiwicz's tt-norm. We extend this result to arbitrary continuous triangular norms, i.e.\ we omit the condition "tt is stronger then {\L}ukasiewicz's".

Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.00971,
  title  = {On the continuity of probabilistic distance},
  author = {Dragoljub J. Kečkić and Marina Milovanović-Aranđelović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00971},
  year   = {2018}
}
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