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Mitsunori Ogawa
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2013
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Mathematical Statistics
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English
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We prove the conjecture by Diaconis and Eriksson (2006) that the Markov degree of the Birkhoff model is three. In fact, we prove the conjecture in a generalization of the Birkhoff model, where each voter is asked to rank a fixed number, say r, of candidates among all candidates. We also give an exhaustive characterization of Markov bases for small r.
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