Triangular norms. Position paper III: continuous t-norms

This third and last part of a series of position papers on triangular norms (for Parts I and II see (E.P. Klement, R. Mesiar, E. Pap, Triangular norms, Position paper I: basic analytical and algebraic properties, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, in press; E.P. Klement, R. Mesiar, E. Pap, Triangular norms. Position paper II: general constructions and parameterized families, submitted for publication) presents the representation of continuous Archimedean t-norms by means of additive generators, and the representation of continuous t-norms by means of ordinal sums with Archimedean summands, both with full proofs. Finally some consequences of these representation theorems in the context of comparison and convergence of continuous t-norms, and of the determination of continuous t-norms by their diagonal sections are mentioned. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.