Star-shapedness of the kernel for homogeneous games

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 179-214

  Sudhölter, Peter ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homogeneity; Incidence vector; Kernel; Partition game; Prekernel; Weighted majority game

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030527318     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4896(96)00816-5     Document Type: Article

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