Power and potential maps induced by any semivalue: some algebraic properties and computation by multilinear extensions

Abstract

The notions of total power and potential, both defined for any semivalue, give rise to two endomorphisms of the vector space of cooperative games on any given player set where the semivalue is defined. Several properties of these linear mappings are stated and the role of unanimity games as eigenvectors is described. We also relate in both cases the multilinear extension of the image game to the multilinear extension of the original game. As a consequence, we derive a method to compute for any semivalue by means of multilinear extensions, in the original game and also in all its subgames, (a) the total power, (b) the potential, and (c) the allocation to each player given by the semivalue.