Connecting preferences over a set with preferences over its power set, and conversely
摘要
In this note we review some recent results concerning two related problems: how to build, starting from a ranking over a finite set A of alternatives, a compatible extension to a ranking over all subsets of A; and, conversely, how to derive a ranking over the alternatives from a ranking over the subsets of a set of alternatives. These two problems are studied in Social Choice because of their wide range of applications. The reported results are taken from Lucchetti et al. (