Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189458 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 97-10
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
The central result of this paper establishes an isomorphism between two types of mathematical structures: ""ternary preorders"" and ""convex topologies."" The former are characterized by reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity conditions, and can be interpreted geometrically as ordered betweenness relations; the latter are defined as intersection-closed families of sets satisfying an ""abstract convexity"" property. A large range of examples is given. As corollaries of the main result we obtain a version of Birkhoff''s representation theorem for finite distributive lattices, and a qualitative version of the representation of ultrametric distances by indexed taxonomic hierarchies.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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