Extreme Lower Previsions and Minkowski Indecomposability
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Coherent lower previsions constitute a convex set that is closed and compact under the topology of point-wise convergence, and Maaß [2] has shown that any coherent lower prevision can be written as a ‘countably additive convex combination’ of the extreme points of this set. We show that when the possibility space has a finite number n of elements, these extreme points are either degenerate precise probabilities, or in a one-to-one correspondence with the (Minkowski) indecomposable compact convex subsets of Rn−1.
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