The Nakamura numbers for computable simple games

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Masahiro Kumabe1, H. Reiju Mihara2
1Kanagawa Study Center, The University of the Air, Yokohama, Japan
2Graduate School of Management, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan

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The Nakamura number of a simple game plays a critical role in preference aggregation (or multi-criterion ranking): the number of alternatives that the players can always deal with rationally is less than this number. We comprehensively study the restrictions that various properties for a simple game impose on its Nakamura number. We find that a computable game has a finite Nakamura number greater than three only if it is proper, nonstrong, and nonweak, regardless of whether it is monotonic or whether it has a finite carrier. The lack of strongness often results in alternatives that cannot be strictly ranked.

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