PROPx doesn't exist even if APS does

Dependencies:

  1. Fair division
  2. PROPx
  3. AnyPrice share
  4. Restricted agents, pairwise fairness, and groupwise fairness

Consider a fair division instance with 3 agents with equal entitlements and identical additive valuations. There are 2 goods of values 5 and 1. Then no PROPx allocation exists.

Let $A$ be the allocation where the first agent gets the good of value 5, and the second agent gets the good of value 1. Then $A$ is a groupwise APS allocation.

Proof

In every allocation, some agent doesn't get any good. That agent is not PROPx-satisfied.

Set the price of the goods to $1.1$ and $0.9$. This shows that $A$ is groupwise APS.

Dependency for: None

Info:

Transitive dependencies:

  1. /sets-and-relations/countable-set
  2. σ-algebra
  3. Set function
  4. Fair division
  5. Proportional allocation
  6. Restricted agents, pairwise fairness, and groupwise fairness
  7. Submodular function
  8. PROPx
  9. Optimization: Dual and Lagrangian
  10. Dual of a linear program
  11. Linear programming: strong duality (incomplete)
  12. AnyPrice share