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A BSDE approach to Nash equilibrium payoffs for stochastic differential games with nonlinear cost functionals

Probability 2011-11-30 v2 Optimization and Control

Abstract

In this paper, we study Nash equilibrium payoffs for nonzero-sum stochastic differential games via the theory of backward stochastic differential equations. We obtain an existence theorem and a characterization theorem of Nash equilibrium payoffs for nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with nonlinear cost functionals defined with the help of a doubly controlled backward stochastic differential equation. Our results extend former ones by Buckdahn, Cardaliaguet and Rainer (2004) and are based on a backward stochastic differential equation approach.

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@article{arxiv.1106.1001,
  title  = {A BSDE approach to Nash equilibrium payoffs for stochastic differential games with nonlinear cost functionals},
  author = {Qian Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.1001},
  year   = {2011}
}