Inspired by the theory of financial markets with transaction costs, we study a concept of essential supremum in the framework where a random partial order in Rd is lifted to the space L0(Rd) of d-dimensional random variables. In contrast to the classical definition, we define the essential...

In the first part of the paper, we study concepts of supremum and maximum as subsets of a topological space X endowed by preference relations. Several rather general existence theorems are obtained for the case where the preferences are defined by countable semicontinuous multi-utility...