Maximal elements for irreflexive binary relations on compact sets

نویسندگان

  • Carlos Rodríguez-Palmero
  • José Luis García-Lapresta
چکیده

The aim of this paper is to provide necessary and sufficient continuity conditions for the existence of maximal elements of irreflexive, acyclic and transitive binary relations defined on compact sets. The results answer a question raised by Campbell and Walker [Journal of Economic Theory 50 (1990) 459–464], among others, who in fact established a sufficient continuity condition for interval orders.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Mathematical Social Sciences

دوره 43  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002