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On the Complexity of Testing Membership in the Core of Min-Cost Spanning Tree Games

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Ulrich Faigle (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands)
Walter Kern (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands)
Winfried Hochstättler (ZPR, Zentrum für paralleles Rechnen Universität zu Köln Albertus-Magnus-Platz, H 50923 Köln, Germany)
Sándor P. Fekete (ZPR, Zentrum für paralleles Rechnen Universität zu Köln Albertus-Magnus-Platz, H 50923 Köln, Germany)

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Let $N=\{ 1,...,n\} $ be a finite set of players and $K_{N}$ the complete graph on the node set $N\cup \{ 0\} $. Assume that the edges of $K_{N}$ have nonnegative weights and associate with each coalition $S\subseteq N$ of players as cost $c(S)$ the weight of a minimal spanning tree on the node set $S\cup \{ 0\} $.

Using transformation from EXACT COVER BY 3-SETS, we exhibit the following problem to be NP-complete. Given the vector $x\in R^{N}$ with $x(N)=c(N)$. Decide whether there exists a coalition S such that $x(S) > c(S)$.

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Article provided by Springer in its journal International Journal of Game Theory.

Volume (Year): 26 (1997)
Issue (Month): 3 ()
Pages: 361-366
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Note: Received May 1995 Revised version I May 1996 Revised version II June 1996
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