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Making use of the total variation of particular functions, we give an explicit formula for the pointwise supremum of the set of all copulas with a given curvilinear section. When the pointwise supremum is a copula is characterized. We also characterize the coincidence of the pointwise supremum and the greatest quasi-copula with the same curvilinear section.
The characterizations when two natural upper bounds of the set of copulas with a given diagonal section are copulas have been well studied in the literature. Given a curvilinear section, however, there is only a partial result concerning the characterization when a natural upper bound of the set of copulas is a copula. In this paper, we completely solve the characterization problem for this natural upper bound to be a copula in the curvilinear case.
The ordinal sum construction provides a very effective way to generate a new triangular norm on the real unit interval from existing ones. One of the most prominent theorems concerning the ordinal sum of triangular norms on the real unit interval states that a triangular norm is continuous if and only if it is uniquely representable as an ordinal sum of continuous Archimedean triangular norms. However, the ordinal sum of triangular norms on subintervals of a bounded lattice is not always a triangular norm (even if only one summand is involved), if one just extends the ordinal sum construction to a bounded lattice in a na\"ıve way. In the present paper, appropriately dealing with those elements that are incomparable with the endpoints of the given subintervals, we propose an alternative definition of ordinal sum of countably many (finite or countably infinite) triangular norms on subintervals of a complete lattice, where the endpoints of the subintervals constitute a chain. The completeness requirement for the lattice is not needed when considering finitely many triangular norms. The newly proposed ordinal sum is shown to be always a triangular norm. Several illustrative examples are given.