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Finitely Additive, Modular and Probability Functions on Pre-semirings

Commutative Algebra 2018-01-26 v2 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

In this paper, we define finitely additive, probability and modular functions over semiring-like structures. We investigate finitely additive functions with the help of complemented elements of a semiring. We also generalize some classical results in probability theory such as the Law of Total Probability, Bayes' Theorem, the Equality of Parallel Systems, and Poincar\'{e}'s Inclusion-Exclusion Theorem. While we prove that modular functions over a couple of known semirings are almost constant, we show it is possible to define many different modular functions over some semirings such as bottleneck algebras and the semiring (Id(D),+,)(Id(D), + ,\cdot), where DD is a Dedekind domain.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03201,
  title  = {Finitely Additive, Modular and Probability Functions on Pre-semirings},
  author = {Peyman Nasehpour and Amir Hossein Parvardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03201},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Minor update, 24 pages, Published online on 15 Dec 2017 in the Journal of Communications in Algebra

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