Tsallis entropy: how unique?

It is shown how, among a class of generalized entropies, the Tsallis entropy can uniquely be identified by the principles of thermodynamics, the concept of stability, and the axiomatic foundations.Received: 6 May 2003, Accepted: 7 July 2003, Published online: 9 December 2003PACS: 05.20.-y, 05.70.-a, 05.90. + m, 65.40.Gr     

Fell topology on the hyperspace of a non-Hausdorff space

Fell topology is very widely used today, even in metric spaces; but J. Fell introduced it in a non-Hausdorff context in the connection with the theory of C ^*-algebras. In spite of this, it has been studied only on the hyperspace of a Hausdorff space, except for the first results due to Fell himself. The present paper aims to fill this gap, in particular extending some results of H. Poppe and of G. Beer to the general case. Project 10251002 supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

席位分配公理的相容性与完备性

在原有的分配公理以外提出了若干新的公理,讨论了分配公理与数学模型之间的关系,然后给出极大相容公理组.     

Separation properties of induced I(L)-topological spaces

The concept of induced I(L)-topological spaces has been introduced by Kubiak (Ph.D. Thesis, UAM, Poznan, 1985) and independently by Wang (Kexue Tongbao 34 (5) (1989) 333). In this paper, the separation properties in the sense of Hutton–Reilly of induced I(L)-topological spaces are investigated. The main result of the paper is a characterization of L-topological spaces by means of the appropriate Hutton–Reilly separation properties of its induced I(L)-topological space.     

关于L-fuzzy拓扑分离性的弱同胚不变性质

本文研究了一种新的弱同胚不变性质，它更具有一般性；证明了目前文献中所论述的各种分离性都是弱同胚不变性质，并且否定回答了王国俊提出的两个分离性问题。     

Paradoxes in conditional probability

It is shown that paradoxes arise in conditional probability calculations, due to incomplete specification of the problem at hand. This is illustrated with the Borel and the Kac-Slepian type paradoxes. These are significant in applications including Bayesian inference. Also Rényi's axiomatic setup does not resolve them. An open problem on calculation of conditional probabilities in the continuous case is noted.     

Weak axioms of choice for metric spaces

In the framework of ZF, i.e., Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory without the axiom of choice AC, we show that if the family of all non-empty, closed subsets of a metric space has a choice function, then so does the family of all non-empty, open subsets of . In addition, we establish that the converse is not provable in ZF.

We also show that the statement ``every subspace of the real line with the standard topology has a choice function for its family of all closed, non-empty subsets" is equivalent to the weak choice form ``every continuum sized family of non-empty subsets of reals has a choice function".