Re: [EM] Who defined the Smith set

2005-02-16 Thread Steve Eppley
Hi, > The Smith set certainly has lots of names. It´s the Smith set, > the minimal dominant set, and now the GeTCha set too. I usually call it the top cycle. The disadvantage of this name is that when there's a Condorcet Winner, the "top cycle" is not a cycle. --Steve Election-methods mai

Re: [EM] Who defined the Smith set

2005-02-16 Thread James Green-Armytage
> >The Smith set certainly has lots of names. It´s the Smith set, the >minimal >dominant set, and now the GeTCha set too. Yes. GeTChA was Schwartz's term. It's a bit silly, perhaps. I think that minimal dominant set is the most straightforward, but I can recognize it by any of the other

[EM] Who defined the Smith set

2005-02-16 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
James-- You wrote: Here again is the reference to Schwartz's book, where he defines the minimal dominant set (GeTChA set) along with the union of minimal undominated sets (GOChA set), and a few others. I reply: The Smith set certainly has lots of names. It´s the Smith set, the minimal domi