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Accessible outcomes versus absorbing outcomes

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(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.

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  • Yang, Yi-You, 2011. "Accessible outcomes versus absorbing outcomes," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 62(1), pages 65-70, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:matsoc:v:62:y:2011:i:1:p:65-70
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    3. Béal, Sylvain & Rémila, Eric & Solal, Philippe, 2013. "An optimal bound to access the core in TU-games," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 1-9.
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    5. Mauleon, Ana & Roehl, Nils & Vannetelbosch, Vincent, 2019. "Paths to stability for overlapping group structures," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 19-24.
    6. Sylvain Béal & Eric Rémila & Philippe Solal, 2013. "Accessibility and stability of the coalition structure core," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 78(2), pages 187-202, October.
    7. Herings, P. Jean-Jacques & Kóczy, László Á., 2021. "The equivalence of the minimal dominant set and the myopic stable set for coalition function form games," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 67-79.
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    9. Péter Biró & Gethin Norman, 2013. "Analysis of stochastic matching markets," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 42(4), pages 1021-1040, November.

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