Minimal Representations for Majority Games

  • Josep Freixas
  • Xavier Molinero
  • Salvador Roura
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4497)

Abstract

This paper presents some new results about majority games. Isbell (1959) was the first to find a majority game without a minimum normalized integer representation; he needed 12 voters to construct such a game. Since then, it has been an open problem to find the minimum number of voters of a majority game without a minimum normalized integer representation. Our main new results are:

1. All majority games with less than 9 voters have a minimum integer representation.

2. For 9 voters, there are 14 majority games without a minimum integer representation, but all these games admit a minimum normalized integer representation.

3. For 10 voters, there exist majority games with neither a minimum integer representation nor a minimum normalized integer representation.

Keywords

Simple games Weighted games Majority games Minimum and minimal weighted representations/realizations Computing games 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Josep Freixas
    • 1
    • 3
  • Xavier Molinero
    • 1
    • 4
  • Salvador Roura
    • 2
    • 4
  1. 1.Escola Politècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Manresa. E-08242 ManresaSpain
  2. 2.Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CN-Ω, E-08034 Barcelona, CataloniaSpain
  3. 3.Dept. de Matemàtica Aplicada 3Spain
  4. 4.Dept. de Llenguatges i Sistemes InformàticsSpain

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