Dissection of solutions in cooperative game theory using representation techniques (Q870752)

The authors study standard cooperative TU-games with \(n\) players in terms of their values. They analyze the values of games under such properties like efficiency, symmetricity, nullity and duality. But for many readers this paper can seem interesting with respect to the fact that the authors apply quite a new method, using nontrivial tools of algebra like basic representation theory of the group of permutation \(S_n\). The starting point in this method is to consider some direct sum decomposition of the vector space of all coopeerative games into special subspaces, and next to consider properties of linear, symmetric solutions restricted to those subspaces. The authors show that this new method enables us to get both some classical results about values of cooperative games and several new ones. Among other things, some new formulae for the Shapley value have been obtained.