Convexity of graph-restricted games induced by minimum partitions

Alexandre Skoda (1, 2)

1 UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2 CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne

We consider restricted games on weighted graphs associated with minimum partitions. We replace in the classical definition of Myerson restricted game the connected components of any subgraph by the sub-components corresponding to a minimum partition. This minimum partition P min is induced by the deletion of the minimum weight edges. We provide five necessary conditions on the graph edge-weights to have inheritance of convexity from the underlying game to the restricted game associated with P min. Then, we establish that these conditions are also sufficient for a weaker condition, called F-convexity, obtained by restriction of convexity to connected subsets. Moreover, we prove that inheritance of convexity for Myerson restricted game associated with a given graph G is equivalent to inheritance of F-convexity for the P min-restricted game associated with a particular weighted graph G ′ built from G by adding a dominating vertex, and with only two different edge-weights. Then, we prove that G is cycle-complete if and only if a specific condition on adjacent cycles is satisfied on G ′ .

Mots clés: restricted game; convex game; partitions; communication networks; cooperative game

Domaines: Economies et finances

Alexandre Skoda. Convexity of graph-restricted games induced by minimum partitions. RAIRO - Operations Research, 2019, 53 (3), pp.841-866. ⟨10.1051/ro/2017069⟩. ⟨halshs-01617023⟩