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Associativity in a class of operations on spaces of distribution functions

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This work is taken from the author's doctoral thesis, written under the thoughtful direction of Professor Abe Sklar at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The author is especially grateful to Professor Berthold Schweizer for suggesting many improvements in the original manuscript.

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Frank, M.J. Associativity in a class of operations on spaces of distribution functions. Aeq. Math. 12, 121–144 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01836543

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