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Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 311-328

Existence of a semicontinuous or continuous utility function: A unified approach and an elementary proof

Author keywords

Decreasing scale; Generalized urysohn system; Preordered bitopological space; Utility function

Indexed keywords


EID: 0036847596     PISSN: 03044068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4068(02)00058-7     Document Type: Article
Times cited : (28)

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