The repetitions approach to characterize cardinal utility (Q1069837)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3936877
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The repetitions approach to characterize cardinal utility
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3936877

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    The repetitions approach to characterize cardinal utility (English)
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    1986
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    Building on previous work of \textit{A. Camacho} [see e.g. ''Societies and social decision functions'' (1982; Zbl 0505.90001)], we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a cardinal utility function to represent, through summation, a preference relation on sequences of alternatives.
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    necessary and sufficient conditions
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    existence of a cardinal utility function
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    sequences of alternatives
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