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Priority-neutral matchings form a lattice, generalizing the lattice structure of stable matchings. However, unlike stable matching lattices, priority-neutral lattices need not be distributive. The author constructs a specific example where the priority-neutral lattice is not distributive.
Additionally, the greatest lower bound of two matchings in the priority-neutral lattice need not be their student-by-student minimum, in contrast to stable matching lattices. This shows that many widely-used properties of stable matchings do not carry over to priority-neutral matchings.
The author also shows that not every lattice can arise as a priority-neutral lattice. This suggests the exact nature of priority-neutral lattices may be more subtle than the well-understood structure of stable matching lattices.
These results indicate that while priority-neutral matchings generalize stable matchings to allow for Pareto-optimal outcomes, they lack much of the mathematical tractability and simplicity of the stable matching framework. Future work may explore alternative definitions that preserve desirable properties.
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by Clayton Thom... às arxiv.org 04-03-2024
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