Defining Coarsenings of Valuations

Nonassociative Valuations

In a paper entitled Noncommutative valuations, Schilling [8] proved that if an algebra of finite order over its center is relatively complete in a valuation (where the value group of the nonarchimedean, exponential valuation is not assumed to be commutative) then the value group is commutative. A similar type of theorem, proved by Albert [l], states that if an algebra of finite order over a fie...

α Valuations of Special Classes of Quadratic Graphs

Valuations revisited

The notion of a semivaluation has been introduced in [Sch98]. Aside from providing a novel concept generalizing valuations on lattices to the context of semilattices, semivaluations shed new light on the notion of a “partial metric” well known from theoretical computer science (e.g. [Mat94], [Mat95], [O’N97], [BS97] and [BSh97]). As discussed in [Sch98], the characterization of partial metrics ...

Ultra valuations

This paper proposes an original exchange property of valuations.This property is shown to be equivalent to a property described by Dress and Terhalle in the context of discrete optimization and matroids and shown there to characterize the valuations for which the demand oracle can be implemented by a greedy algorithm. The same exchange property is also equivalent to a property described indepen...

Rational Valuations

Valuations are ubiquitous. We may be for or against genetically modified food; we find some politicians irresponsible; we prefer Beethoven to rock ‘n’ roll or vice versa; some enjoy bird-watching while others find it boring; and we may think that we have to tighten up on green-house gas emissions. Valuing is pervasive and often we are not even aware that we are valuing. However, many of our val...