Probabilistic Domains

Reinhold Heckmann

Abstract

We show the equivalence of several different axiomatizations of the notion of (abstract) probabilistic domain in the category of dcpo's and continuous functions. The axiomatization with the richest set of operations provides probabilistic selection among a finite number of possibilities with arbitrary probabilities, whereas the poorest one has binary choice with equal probabilities as the only operation. The remaining theories lie in between; one of them is the theory of binary choice by Graham [1].


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