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A note on characterizations of the Natvig structure functions

In this note some new characterization results for multistate systems are obtained. In particular, a new characterization of the Natvig class of multistate systems is presented, which provides us an easy-to-use method of classifying multistate systems. Examples are given to illustrate our results.

Fan C. Meng

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