Assignment games with population monotonic allocation schemes

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 62 - Trang 67-88 - 2023
Tamás Solymosi1
1Corvinus Center for Operations Research and Department of Operations Research and Actuarial Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Tóm tắt

We characterize the assignment games which admit a population monotonic allocation scheme (PMAS) in terms of efficiently verifiable structural properties of the nonnegative matrix that induces the game. We prove that an assignment game is PMAS-admissible if and only if the positive elements of the underlying nonnegative matrix form orthogonal submatrices of three special types. In game theoretic terms it means that an assignment game is PMAS-admissible if and only if it contains either a veto player or a dominant veto mixed pair, or the game is a composition of these two types of special assignment games. We also show that in PMAS-admissible assignment games all core allocations can be extended to a PMAS, and the nucleolus coincides with the tau-value.

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