A generalization of obligation rules for minimum cost spanning tree problems

Abstract

Tijs et al. [23] introduce the family of obligation rules for minimum cost spanning tree problems. We give a generalization of such family. We prove that our family coincides with the set of rules satisfying an additivity property and a cost monotonicity property. We also provide two new characterizations for the family of obligation rules using the previous properties. In the first one, we add a property of separability; and in the second one, we add core selection.