Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Heirs. 3. The invariance group of a cut. 4. Review of T-convex valuation rings. 5. The invariance valuation ring of a cut. 6. A method for producing cuts with prescribed signature. 7. Existentially closed extensions. 1. Introduction. Let M be a totally ordered set. A (Dedekind) cut p of M is a couple (p L , p R) of subsets p L , p R of M such that p L ∪ p R = M and ...

Fuzzy relations are mappings from pairs of elements into the interval [0, 1]. As a replacement for the complement operation one can use the mapping that sends x to 1 − x. Together with the concepts of t-norm and t-conorm a weak form of Boolean algebra can be defined. However, to our knowledge so far no notion of domain or codomain has been investigated for fuzzy relations. These might, however,...

‎In this paper, generalized convex contractions on orthogonal metric spaces are stablished in whath  might be called their  definitive versions. Also, we show that there are examples which show that our main theorems are  genuine generalizations of Theorem 3.1 and 3.2 of [M.A. Miandaragh, M. Postolache and S. Rezapour,  {it Approximate fixed points of generalized convex contractions}, Fixed Poi...

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