The $\kappa$-core and the $\kappa$-balancedness of TU games

Abstract

We consider transferable utility cooperative games with infinitely many players. In particular, we generalize the notions of core and balancedness, and also the Bondareva-Shapley Theorem for infinite TU-games with and without restricted cooperation, to the cases where the core consists of $\kappa$-additive set functions. Our generalized Bondareva-Shapley Theorem extends previous results by Bondareva (1963), Shapley (1967), Schmeidler (1967), Faigle (1989), Kannai (1969), Kannai (1992), Pinter(2011) and Bartl and Pint\'er (2022).