On necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability of game forms. (Q1421920)

The authors consider game forms which extend the usual games in the sense that assignment of preference relations of players over alternatives determines a game and investigate their solvability regardless of any assignment of such preferences. They associate with the game form a particular structure, defined as a set of potential coalitions having a certain joint power locally, and define the concepts of core and stability for this generalized concept of effectivity functions and also the extended concept of acyclicity. These properties are used for establishing necessary and sufficient conditions of strong and Nash solvability.