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#1 Properties of Position Matrices and Their Elections [PDF1] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Niclas Boehmer, Jin-Yi Cai, Piotr Faliszewski, Austen Z. Fan, Łukasz Janeczko, Andrzej Kaczmarczyk, Tomasz Wąs

We study the properties of elections that have a given position matrix (in such elections each candidate is ranked on each position by a number of voters specified in the matrix). We show that counting elections that generate a given position matrix is #P-complete. Consequently, sampling such elections uniformly at random seems challenging and we propose a simpler algorithm, without hard guarantees. Next, we consider the problem of testing if a given matrix can be implemented by an election with a certain structure (such as single-peakedness or group-separability). Finally, we consider the problem of checking if a given position matrix can be implemented by an election with a Condorcet winner. We complement our theoretical findings with experiments.