Use of Maxitive (Possibility) Measures in Foundations of Physics and Description of Randomness: Case Study
A. M. Finkelstein, Olga M. Kosheleva, Владик Крейнович, Scott A. Starks, Hung Tan Nguyen · 2005
According to the traditional probability theory, events with a positive but very small probability can occur (although very rarely). For example, from the purely mathematical viewpoint, it is possible that the thermal motion of all the molecules in a coffee cup goes in the same direction, so this cup starts lifting up. In contrast, physicists believe that events with extremely small probability cannot occur. In this paper, we show that to get a consistent formalization of this belief, we need, in addition to the original probability measure, to also consider a maxitive (possibility) measure.