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A counterexample to a conjecture of Schwartz

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  • Felix Brandt
  • Maria Chudnovsky
  • Ilhee Kim
  • Gaku Liu
  • Sergey Norin
  • Alex Scott
  • Paul Seymour
  • Stephan Thomassé

Abstract

In 1990, motivated by applications in the social sciences, Thomas Schwartz made a conjecture about tournaments which would have had numerous attractive consequences. In particular, it implied that there is no tournament with a partition A, B of its vertex set, such that every transitive subset of A is in the out-neighbour set of some vertex in B, and vice versa. But in fact there is such a tournament, as we show in this article, and so Schwartz’ conjecture is false. Our proof is non-constructive and uses the probabilistic method. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013

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  • Felix Brandt & Maria Chudnovsky & Ilhee Kim & Gaku Liu & Sergey Norin & Alex Scott & Paul Seymour & Stephan Thomassé, 2013. "A counterexample to a conjecture of Schwartz," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 40(3), pages 739-743, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:40:y:2013:i:3:p:739-743
    DOI: 10.1007/s00355-011-0638-y
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