Contradictory preference cycles in Condorcet's paradox are non-orientable surfaces: the Klein bottle (unrealised) or the real projective plane (realised), yielding an orientability reformulation of Arrow's theorem.
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The Non-Orientable Topology of Condorcet's Paradox
Contradictory preference cycles in Condorcet's paradox are non-orientable surfaces: the Klein bottle (unrealised) or the real projective plane (realised), yielding an orientability reformulation of Arrow's theorem.