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Existence of an order-preserving function on normally preordered spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Ghanshyam Mehta
Affiliation:
Departments of Economics and Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia. Qld. 4067.
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Abstract

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The object of this paper is to generalize the classic theorems of Eilenberg and Debreu on the existence of continuous order-preserving transformations on ordered topological spaces and to prove them in a different way. The proof of the theorems is based on Nachbin's generalization to ordered topological spaces of Urysohn's separation theorem in normal topological spaces.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1986

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