Characterizing Super Stability in the Roommate Problem Under Weak Preferences
摘要
We study the stable matching problem in which participants have complete and weak preference lists over the other participants. We focus on a new structure called the “super-stable partition” that characterizes the super-stability of the roommate problem under weak preferences. We show that a super-stable partition always exists and can be computed in polynomial time \(O(n^2)\) . The takeaway result is that a super-stable roommate matching exists if and only if the cardinality of each super ring in the super-stable partition is even.