Verifying Randomised Social Choice

This work describes the formalisation of a recent result from Randomised Social Choice Theory in Isabelle/HOL. The original result had been obtained through the use of linear programming, an unverified Java program, and SMT solvers; at the time that the formalisation effort began, no human-readable proof was available. Thus, the formalisation with Isabelle eventually served as both independent rigorous confirmation of the original result and led to human-readable proofs both in Isabelle and on paper.

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