Abstract
We prove that the ordinal sum of n-copulas is always an n-copula and show that every copula may be represented as an ordinal sum, once the set of its idempotents is known. In particular, it will be shown that every copula can be expressed as the ordinal sum of copulas having only trivial idempotents. As a by-product, we also characterize all associative copulas whose n-ary forms are n-copulas for all n.
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