What Semivalues Cannot See: The Information Content of Anonymous Marginal Values
Abstract
The semivalue family shares a common kernel: games invisible to every anonymous marginal value at once, nonzero from four players (Kleinberg and Weiss, 1985; Amer, Derks and Gim\'enez, 2003). Crisman and Orrison (2015) ask what useful structure this kernel carries; this paper gives a concrete answer. In Harsanyi-dividend coordinates the joint information of all semivalues is exactly each player's total synergy at each coalition size, so the kernel is synergy arranged in closed circuits. We prove: order- mixed-difference audits recover exactly the degree- dividend-slice harmonics, with closed-form dimension at every rung; nonzero blind games fail superadditivity, monotonicity, and core existence, yet distinct convex games with identical values under every semivalue exist from four players, with exact perturbation thresholds; the positive weighted Shapley family attains full information , so anonymity is the binding axiom within the marginal framework; and a coalition of size defeats every audit of order precisely when , within the convex class for small perturbations. An exhaustive census at exhibits non-isomorphic voting rules with identical values under every semivalue power index; no weighted game participates in any collision, prompting a swing-rigidity conjecture. Measured against the theory, classical cooperative games sit at to visibility to the family versus for a random game.
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@article{arxiv.2607.07013,
title = {What Semivalues Cannot See: The Information Content of Anonymous Marginal Values},
author = {Matthew Fried},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07013},
year = {2026}
}
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15 pages