The Social Will-Testing Game and its Solution
Computer Science and Game Theory
2012-06-28 v1 Populations and Evolution
Abstract
We examine a two-person game we call Will-Testing in which the strategy space for both players is a real number. It has no equilibrium. When an infinitely large set of players plays this in all possible pairings, there is an equilibrium for the distribution of strategies which requires all players to use different strategies. We conjecture this solution could underlie some phenomena (like pecking orders) observed in animals.
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@article{arxiv.1206.6148,
title = {The Social Will-Testing Game and its Solution},
author = {Leonid Gurvits and J. Stephen Judd},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6148},
year = {2012}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure