The number of critical connection vectors of L-superadditive structure functions

Abstract

A conjecture due to Block et al. (1989), concerning the number of critical connection vectors to the various performance levels of a discrete L-superadditive structure function, is proved. When the components of the discrete L-superadditive structure function are further assumed to satisfy a certain relevance condition due to Griffith (1980), it is shown that there is exactly one critical connection vector to each performance level.