Measurement structures with Archimedean ordered translation groups
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Measurement structures with Archimedean ordered translation groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 0629.08001
DOI: 10.1007/BF00337695
author: R. Duncan Luce
published in: Order
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The author focuses on three questions of generalizing properties of concatenation structures to ordered structures lacking any operation: 1. the natural generalization of the idea of Archimedeaness, of commensurability between large and small, 2. the natural generalization of the concept of a unit concatenation structure in which the translations (automorphisms with no fixed point) can be represented by multiplication by a constant, 3. the natural generalization of a ratio scale concatenation structure being distributive in a conjoint one, which has been shown to force a multiplicative representation of the latter and the product-of-powers representation of units found in physics. He proves (Theorem 5.1 and 5.2) that for homogeneous structures the latter two questions are equivalent to having the property that the set of all translations forms a homogeneous Archimedean ordered group. He explores a sufficient condition for Archimedeaness of the translations and suggests that Archimedean order of the translations is the answer to the first question.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 08A02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 08A35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 06F15
zbMATH DE Number: 4023357
zbMATH Keywords: concatenation structures
zbMATH Keywords: commensurability
zbMATH Keywords: automorphisms
zbMATH Keywords: ratio scale
zbMATH Keywords: homogeneous structures
zbMATH Keywords: translations
zbMATH Keywords: homogeneous Archimedean ordered group
Wikidata QID: Q56432216
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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