Abstract
A family of permutations ℱ forms a realization of a directed graph T = (V, E) if for every directed edge uv of T, u precedes v in more than half of the permutations. The quality q(ℱ, T) of the realization is the minimum, over all directed edges uv of T, of the ratio (ℱ(u, v) ℱ(v, u))/ℱ, where ℱ(x, y) is the number of permutations in ℱ in which x precedes y. The study of this quantity is motivated by questions about voting schemes in which each individual has a linear ordering of all candidates, and the individual preferences are combined to decide between any pair of possible candidates by applying the majority vote. It is shown that every simple digraph T on n vertices, with no anti-parallel edges, admits a realization ℱ with quality at least c/ n for some absolute positive constant c, and this is tight up to the constant factor c.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 126-135 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Advances in Applied Mathematics |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1 2002 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Applied Mathematics