- Explore the following question: If a majority tournament
turns out to be transitive, does any voting method yield a different winner
than the condorcet winner?
- Prove: Every tournament with more than 3 vertices has at
least one transitive triple.
- Prove: A tournament has exactly one king if and only if
that king is an emperor (ie, condorcet winner).
- Prove: No tournament has exactly two kings.
- Prove that the definition of a Banks set (B(T)) is identical
to the defintion of a Miller set (M(T)).
- Prove B(T) is a subset of K(T) (set of kings).
Quiz 2:due Monday Jan. 21st
- Prove: No tournament has exactly two kings.
- Prove: B(T) is a subset of K(T).
- Refer to the example given in class (1/3 votes for xwzy;
1/3 for wzyx; 1/3 for yxwz). Suppose that you are an agenda setter and you
do not like x. Give an agenda so that x does not win by sophisticated voting
method. Give an agenda so that x does not win by sincere voting method. Can
you give an agenda so that x does not win by both sophisticated and sincere?
If yes, give it, and if no, prove that you cannot.