Piercing Numbers in Approval Voting
Combinatorics
2019-06-28 v3
Abstract
We survey a host of results from discrete geometry that have bearing on the analysis of geometric models of approval voting. Such models view the political spectrum as a geometric space, with geometric constraints on voter preferences. Results on piercing numbers then have a natural interpretation in voting theory, and we survey their implications for various classes of geometric constraints on voter approval sets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.09493,
title = {Piercing Numbers in Approval Voting},
author = {Francis Edward Su and Shira Zerbib},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09493},
year = {2019}
}