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Stochastic Games with General Payoff Functions

Optimization and Control 2022-08-26 v1 Probability

Abstract

We consider multiplayer stochastic games in which the payoff of each player is a bounded and Borel-measurable function of the infinite play. By using a generalization of the technique of Martin (1998) and Maitra and Sudderth (1998), we show four different existence results. In each stochastic game, it holds for every ϵ>0\epsilon>0 that (i) each player has a strategy that guarantees in each subgame that this player's payoff is at least her maxmin value up to ϵ\epsilon, (ii) there exists a strategy profile under which in each subgame each player's payoff is at least her minmax value up to ϵ\epsilon, (iii) the game admits an extensive-form correlated ϵ\epsilon-equilibrium, and (iv) there exists a subgame that admits an ϵ\epsilon-equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.2208.12096,
  title  = {Stochastic Games with General Payoff Functions},
  author = {János Flesch and Eilon Solan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.12096},
  year   = {2022}
}
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