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The Kernel of the General-Sum Four-Person Game

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

B. Peleg
B. Peleg*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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In this paper we apply various results and methods of previous papers on the kernel to four-person games.

Section 2 contains the basic definitions needed. In §3 we prove that the kernel of the general-sum four-person game consists of a line segment (which may shrink to a point). A method for classifying games according to their kernels is suggested in §4 and is used there to characterize all four-person games whose kernel consists of a non-degenerate interval. In the last section, §5, we offer a bargaining procedure, based on principles established in (1), which leads to the kernel in the case of a non-degenerate interval.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 18 , 1966 , pp. 673 - 677
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1966

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