An infinite version of Arrow's theorem in the effective setting (Q1108914)

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An infinite version of Arrow's theorem in the effective setting
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    An infinite version of Arrow's theorem in the effective setting (English)
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    1988
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    The author studies the well-known Arrow problem in the theory of voting for the case when both the set of voters and the set of alternatives are infinite. He investigates the question of whether ``infinitory versions of Arrow's theorem exist that are absolutely within ZF and for which algorithms exist to determine the identities of dictators'' (ZF stands for Zermelo-Fraenkel's set of axioms in set theory). The author asserts that ``... in the case of a society that is fully recursive over the ring of all algebraic integers of a number field we have also shown that a primitive recursive algorithm exists to determine the dictators...''.
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    Arrow's theorem
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    infinite set of voters
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    infinite set of alternatives
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    voting
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