A new characterization of the path independent choice functions [An article from: Mathematical Social Sciences]

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In this paper we introduce a new axiom for choice functions, equivalent to the path independence axiom. We call it the congruence condition. This axiom allows to construct directly the anti-exchange closure operators and the convex geometries associated to path independent choice functions.