On Equitable Social Welfare Functions Satisfying the Weak Pareto Axiom: A Complete Characterization

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram Sewak Dubey ◽  
Tapan Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Complete Characterization ◽  
Axiom A ◽  
Pareto Axiom

scholarly journals Arrovian Aggregation of Convex Preferences

Econometrica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 799-844
Author(s):  
Florian Brandl ◽  
Felix Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Complete Characterization ◽  
Choice Functions ◽  
Maximal Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Outcome Space ◽  
Convex Preferences ◽  
Finite Set ◽  
Arrovian Aggregation

We consider social welfare functions that satisfy Arrow's classic axioms of independence of irrelevant alternatives and Pareto optimality when the outcome space is the convex hull of some finite set of alternatives. Individual and collective preferences are assumed to be continuous and convex, which guarantees the existence of maximal elements and the consistency of choice functions that return these elements, even without insisting on transitivity. We provide characterizations of both the domains of preferences and the social welfare functions that allow for anonymous Arrovian aggregation. The domains admit arbitrary preferences over alternatives, which completely determine an agent's preferences over all mixed outcomes. On these domains, Arrow's impossibility turns into a complete characterization of a unique social welfare function, which can be readily applied in settings involving divisible resources such as probability, time, or money.

scholarly journals Combined structural and topological stability are equivalent to Axiom A and the strong transversality condition

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Transversality Condition ◽  
Complete Characterization ◽  
Compact Manifolds ◽  
Topological Stability ◽  
Axiom A ◽  
Recent Theorem ◽  
Structurally Stable

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to develop necessary conditions for a diffeomorphism to be topologically stable (lower semistable). Our results combine with a recent theorem of R. Mañé and with earlier results of J. Robbin, C. Robinson, and Z. Nitecki to give a complete characterization of diffeomorphisms of compact manifolds that are both topologically and structurally stable: they are precisely the Axiom A diffeomorphisms that satisfy the strong transversality condition.

Diffraction contrast of dislocations in icosahedral quasicrystals

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
K. Urban ◽  
Z. Zhang ◽  
M. Wollgarten ◽  
D. Gratias
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Complete Characterization ◽  
Extinction Condition ◽  
Burgers Vector ◽  
Diffraction Contrast ◽  
Lattice Geometry ◽  
Reference Space ◽  
Icosahedral Quasicrystals ◽  
The One

Recently dislocations have been observed by electron microscopy in the icosahedral quasicrystalline (IQ) phase of Al65Cu20Fe15. These dislocations exhibit diffraction contrast similar to that known for dislocations in conventional crystals. The contrast becomes extinct for certain diffraction vectors g. In the following the basis of electron diffraction contrast of dislocations in the IQ phase is described. Taking account of the six-dimensional nature of the Burgers vector a “strong” and a “weak” extinction condition are found.Dislocations in quasicrystals canot be described on the basis of simple shear or insertion of a lattice plane only. In order to achieve a complete characterization of these dislocations it is advantageous to make use of the one to one correspondence of the lattice geometry in our three-dimensional space (R3) and that in the six-dimensional reference space (R6) where full periodicity is recovered . Therefore the contrast extinction condition has to be written as gpbp + gobo = 0 (1). The diffraction vector g and the Burgers vector b decompose into two vectors gp, bp and go, bo in, respectively, the physical and the orthogonal three-dimensional sub-spaces of R6.

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