Lower Bound for Online MMS Assignment of Indivisible Chores

cs.GT arXiv:2507.12984
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Abstract

We consider the problem of online assignment of indivisible chores under \MMS\ criteria. The previous work proves that any deterministic online algorithm for chore division has a competitive ratio of at least 2. In this work, we improve this bound by showing that no deterministic online algorithm can obtain a competitive ratio better than $n$ for $n$ agents.

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