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1 octobre 2020
- 2010.04265
- Journal of Mathematical Psychology 113, 102754. 2023
- doi: 10.1016/j.jmp.2023.102754
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A. Estevan, « Debreu's open gap lemma for semiorders », arXiv - économie, ID : 10.1016/j.jmp.2023.102754
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The problem of finding a (continuous) utility function for a semiorder has been studied since in 1956 R.D. Luce introduced in \emph{Econometrica} the notion. There was almost no results on the continuity of the representation. A similar result to Debreu's Lemma, but for semiorders, was never achieved. Recently, some necessary conditions for the existence of a continuous representation as well as some conjectures were presented by A. Estevan. In the present paper we prove these conjectures, achieving the desired version of Debreu's Open Gap Lemma for bounded semiorders. This result allows to remove the open-closed and closed-open gaps of a subset $S\subseteq \mathbb{R}$, but now keeping the constant threshold, so that $x+1