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Nonzero-sum Risk-sensitive Stochastic Games on a Countable State Space

Optimization and Control 2016-03-14 v1

Abstract

The infinite horizon risk-sensitive discounted-cost and ergodic-cost nonzero-sum stochastic games for controlled Markov chains with countably many states are analyzed. For the discounted-cost game, we prove the existence of Nash equilibrium strategies in the class of Markov strategies under fairly general conditions. Under an additional geometric ergodicity condition and a small cost criterion, the existence of Nash equilibrium strategies in the class of stationary Markov strategies is proved for the ergodic-cost game.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03683,
  title  = {Nonzero-sum Risk-sensitive Stochastic Games on a Countable State Space},
  author = {Arnab Basu and Mrinal K. Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03683},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Submitted on September 16, 2015 for review for possible publication in Mathematics of Operations Research as Manuscript No: MOR-2015-241

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