Maximal elements of non necessarily acyclic binary relations

  1. Josep Enric Peris Ferrando
  2. Begoña Subiza Martínez
Revista:
Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie AD

Any de publicació: 1992

Número: 7

Pàgines: 1-20

Tipus: Document de treball

Resum

The existence of maximal elements for binary preference relations is analyzed without imposing transitivity or convexity conditions. From each preference relation a new acyclic relation is defined in such a way that some maximal elements of this new relation characterize maximal elements of the original one. The result covers the case whereby the relation is acyclic.