
We study the classical, two-sided stable marriage problem under pairwise preferences. In the most general setting, agents are allowed to express their preferences as comparisons of any two of their edges, and they also have the right to declare a draw or even withdraw from such a comparison. This freedom is then gradually restricted as we specify six stages of orderedness in the preferences, ending with the classical case of strictly ordered lists. We study all cases occurring when combining the three known notions of stability—weak, strong, and super-stability—under the assumption that each side of the bipartite market obtains one of the six degrees of orderedness. By designing three polynomial algorithms and two NP-completeness proofs, we determine the complexity of all cases not yet known and thus give an exact boundary in terms of preference structure between tractable and intractable cases.
ddc:004, FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM), acyclic preferences, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering GmbH, HQ The family. Marriage. Woman / család, 05C70, 68W40, 05C85, super stable matching, poset, C78, stable marriage, ddc:330, strongly stable matching, házasság, 004, weakly stable matching, nőpolitika, C63, intransitivity, Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics, ddc: ddc:004
ddc:004, FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM), acyclic preferences, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering GmbH, HQ The family. Marriage. Woman / család, 05C70, 68W40, 05C85, super stable matching, poset, C78, stable marriage, ddc:330, strongly stable matching, házasság, 004, weakly stable matching, nőpolitika, C63, intransitivity, Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics, ddc: ddc:004
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