Balanced capacities (Q6149239)

The Bondareva-Shapley Theorem [\textit{O. N. Bondareva}, Probl. Kibern. 10, 119--139 (1963; Zbl 1013.91501); \textit{L. S. Shapley}, Int. J. Game Theory 1, 11--26 (1971; Zbl 0222.90054)] provides a characterization of games on finite sets with non-empty core, claiming the the core is non-empty iff the game is balanced. This paper considers a cooperative game on a compactum. The author established in \S 2 an analogue of Bondareva-Shapley theorem that non-emptiness of the core is equivalent to balancedness of the game. Capacities (non-additive measures, fuzzy measures) were introduced by \textit{G. Choquet} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 5, 131--295 (1955; Zbl 0064.35101)]. Capacities can be considered as monotone cooperative games. Capacities on compacta were considered in [\textit{L. Zhou}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, No. 5, 1811--1822 (1998; Zbl 0905.28006)], where the important role plays the upper-semicontinuity property connecting the capacity theory with the topological structure. The author gives a characterization of some fuzzy integrals generated by balanced capacities in \S 4. Categorical and topological properties of spaces of upper-semicontinuous normed capacities on compact Hausdorff spaces (compacta) were investigated in [\textit{M. M. Zarichnyǐ} and \textit{O. R. Nykyforchyn}, Sb. Math. 199, No. 2, 159--184 (2008; Zbl 1165.54003); translation from Mat. Sb. 199, No. 2, 3--26 (2008)]. The author considers categorical properties of balanced capacities in \S 3.