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A survey on the mathematical foundations of axiomatic entropy: representability and orderings

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2018

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MDPI
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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MINECO//ECO2015-65031-R/ES/
MINECO//MTM2015-63608-P/ES/
ES/1PE/TIN2016-77356-P

Abstract

Different abstract versions of entropy, encountered in science, are interpreted in the light of numerical representations of several ordered structures, as total-preorders, interval-orders and semiorders. Intransitivities, other aspects of entropy as competitive systems, additivity, etc., are also viewed in terms of representability of algebraic structures endowed with some compatible ordering. A particular attention is paid to the problem of the construction of an entropy function or their mathematical equivalents. Multidisciplinary comparisons to other similar frameworks are also discussed, pointing out the mathematical foundations.

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Ordered structures, Numerical representations, Entropy, Representability, Utility functions

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Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika / Zientziak / Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE / Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2 / Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas / Ciencias

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This work was partially supported by the research projects ECO2015-65031-R, MTM2015-63608-P (MINECO/AEI-FEDER, UE), 0011-1365-2016-000060, PC003-004-005 DRUG-MAG, TIN2016-77356-P (MINECO/AEI-FEDER, UE) and 0011-1365-2017-000118.

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