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Past exam of the MSc in advanced computer science course of the University of Oxford 2022 Computational game theory 4 c iv Solution by
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No. The denominator test from part ii is satisfied here, so a stronger obstruction is needed. Put and . In a three-player simple cooperative game, the Shapley value formula gives, for distinct ,Subtract the corresponding expression for :Each coalition value is zero or one, so this difference must be an integer multiple of . This is the obstruction from pairwise Shapley differences in a three-player simple game. The proposed first two coordinates differ by , which is not an integer multiple of . Therefore the vector cannot occur, even though each coordinate separately passes the denominator test.
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