Maximal elements of non necessarily acyclic binary relations

• Autores: Josep E. Peris Ferrando, Begoña Subiza Martínez
• Localización: Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie AD, Nº. 7, 1992, págs. 1-20
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.