Accessible outcomes versus absorbing outcomes

Yi-You Yang

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2011, vol. 62, issue 1, 65-70

Abstract: (Kóczy and Lauwers, 2004) and (Kóczy and Lauwers, 2007) show that the collection of absorbing outcomes, i.e., the coalition structure core, of a TU game, if non-empty, is a minimal dominant set. The paper complements the result in two respects. First, it is shown that the coalition structure core, if non-empty, can be reached from any outcome via a sequence of successive blocks in quadratic time. Second, we observe that an analogous result holds for accessible outcomes, namely, the collection of accessible outcomes, if non-empty, is a minimal dominant set. Moreover, we give an existence theorem for accessible outcomes, which implies that the minimal dominant set of a cohesive game is exactly the coalition structure core or the collection of accessible outcomes, either of which can be reached from any outcome in linear time.

Date: 2011
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