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We use an information-theoretic argument due to O'Connell (2000) to prove that every sufficiently symmetric event concerning a countably infinite family of independent and identically distributed random variables is deterministic (i.e., has…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Yahya Ayach , Anthony Khairallah , Tia Manoukian , Jad Mchaimech , Adam Salha , Siamak Taati

We prove game-theoretic generalizations of some well known zero-one laws. Our proofs make the martingales behind the laws explicit, and our results illustrate how martingale arguments can have implications going beyond measure-theoretic…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-12 Akimichi Takemura , Vladimir Vovk , Glenn Shafer

We ask for necessary and sufficient conditions for almost sure finiteness of the perpetual integrals of a Levy process. Zero-one laws are already known for Brownian motion with drift and spectrally one-sided Levy processes. Under the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Leif Doering , Andreas E. Kyprianou

We consider strong law of large numbers (SLLN) in the framework of game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk (2001). We prove several versions of SLLN for the case that Reality's moves are unbounded. Our game-theoretic versions of SLLN…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-08-27 Masayuki Kumon , Akimichi Takemura , Kei Takeuchi

We study a zero-sum game where the evolution of a spectrally one-sided Levy process is modified by a singular controller and is terminated by the stopper. The singular controller minimizes the expected values of running, controlling and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Daniel Hernandez-Hernandez , Kazutoshi Yamazaki

We provide some examples showing how game-theoretic arguments can be used in computability theory and algorithmic information theory: unique numbering theorem (Friedberg), the gap between conditional complexity and total conditional…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Andrej Muchnik , Alexander Shen , Mikhail Vyugin

When testing a statistical hypothesis, is it legitimate to deliberate on the basis of initial data about whether and how to collect further data? Game-theoretic probability's fundamental principle for testing by betting says yes, provided…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-30 Glenn Shafer

We give a game-theoretic proof of the celebrated Erdos-Feller-Kolmogorov-Petrowsky law of the iterated logarithm for fair coin tossing. Our proof, based on Bayesian strategy, is explicit as many other game-theoretic proofs of the laws in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Takeyuki Sasai , Kenshi Miyabe , Akimichi Takemura

A basic question for zero-sum repeated games consists in determining whether the mean payoff per time unit is independent of the initial state. In the special case of "zero-player" games, i.e., of Markov chains equipped with additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Antoine Hochart

Game-theoretic probability uses the structure of gambles to define a concept like probability, but which is more flexible and robust. We show that results in game-theoretic probability can be thought of as minimax theorems for specific…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Rafael Frongillo

Definable zero-sum stochastic games involve a finite number of states and action sets, reward and transition functions that are definable in an o-minimal structure. Prominent examples of such games are finite, semi-algebraic or globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Jérôme Bolte , Stéphane Gaubert , Guillaume Vigeral

Zero-sum stochastic games generalize the notion of Markov Decision Processes (i.e. controlled Markov chains, or stochastic dynamic programming) to the 2-player competitive case : two players jointly control the evolution of a state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Jérôme Renault

We study the behavior of the capital process of a continuous Bayesian mixture of fixed proportion betting strategies in the one-sided unbounded forecasting game in game-theoretic probability. We establish the relation between the rate of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Ryosuke Sato , Kenshi Miyabe , Akimichi Takemura

Zero-one laws state that probabilistic events of a certain type must occur with probability either $0$ or $1$, and nothing in between. We formulate a syntactic zero-one law, which enjoys good logical properties while being broadly…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Thomas Powell , Alex Wan

A set of binary random variables indexed by a lattice torus is considered. Under a mixing hypothesis, the probability of any proposition belonging to the first order logic of colored graphs tends to 0 or 1, as the size of the lattice tends…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Coupier , Paul Doukhan , Bernard Ycart

The Levy-Steinitz theorem characterizes the values that a conditionally convergent sequence in of real numbers can attain under permutations. We extend this analysis to sequences of countable sequences of real numbers, under pointwise…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Paul B. Larson

This paper makes a small step towards a non-stochastic version of superhedging duality relations in the case of one traded security with a continuous price path. Namely, we prove the coincidence of game-theoretic and measure-theoretic…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-08-10 Vladimir Vovk

This paper has a two-folded purpose. First, we attempt to outline the development of the turnpike theorems in the the last several decades. Second, we study turnpike theorems in finite-horizon two-person zero-sum Markov games on a general…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-19 Vassili Kolokoltsov , Wei Yang

This paper is a survey of applications of the theory of algorithmic randomness to ergodic theory. We establish various degrees of constructivity for asymptotic laws of probability theory. In the framework of the Kolmogorov approach to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Vladimir V. V'yugin

We consider the Last-Success-Problem with $n$ independent Bernoulli random variables with parameters $p_i>0$. We improve the lower bound provided by F.T. Bruss for the probability of winning and provide an alternative proof to the one given…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-21 J. M. Grau Ribas
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