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Representing roommates’ preferences with symmetric utilities

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Abstract

In the context of the stable roommates problem, it is shown that acyclicity of preferences is equivalent to the existence of symmetric utility functions, i.e. the utility of agent i when matched with j is the same as j's utility when matched with i.

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This research was made during my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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