Equivalence relations in the theory of repetitive consumption
β Scribed by Joseph L. Balintfy; Emmanuel S. Melachrinoudis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 358 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-069X
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
Preference for food in the function of the time since last consumption and total preference in the function of eating frequency are equivalent mathematical representations of attitudes governing food consumption. The observed and postulated properties of these functions imply a formal correspondence between preference maximizing and variety seeking behavior.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The aim of this paper is to study those pairs of complementary equivalence relations on a fixed set which are maximal as families of mutually complementary equivalence relations. The existence of such pairs on uncountable sets was proved by Steprgns and Watson (1995). They conjectured that such pair