| Article ID: | iaor19921074 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 694 |
| End Page Number: | 753 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1991 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Mertens Jean-Francois |
| Keywords: | economics |
This is part II of Mertens (IAOR 45229). It discusses the geometric content of the definition, showing in particular the algebraic distinctions to matter. The paper provides an equivalent definition that gets rid of the need to use Hausdorff limits, and finally it shows that a ‘decomposition axiom’ eliminates most of the algebraic possibilities, leaving only the ‘