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We show that it is decidable whether two regular languages of infinite trees are separable by a deterministic language, resp., a game language. We consider two variants of separability, depending on whether the set of priorities of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Lorenzo Clemente , Michał Skrzypczak

We prove a sufficient condition for the Jacobian problem in the setting of real, complex and mixed polynomial mappings. This follows from the study of the bifurcation locus of a mapping subject to a new Newton non-degeneracy condition.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Ying Chen , L. R. G. Dias , Kiyoshi Takeuchi , Mihai Tibar

Recently, Dohrau et al. studied a zero-player game on switch graphs and proved that deciding the termination of the game is in NP $\cap$ coNP. In this short paper, we show that the search version of this game on switch graphs, i.e., the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Karthik C. S.

While the computational complexity of many game-theoretic solution concepts, notably Nash equilibrium, has now been settled, the question of determining the exact complexity of computing an evolutionarily stable strategy has resisted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Vincent Conitzer

For bipartite graphs the NP-completeness is proved for the problem of existence of maximum matching which removal leads to a graph with given lower(upper)bound for the cardinality of its maximum matching.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-03-08 R. R. Kamalian , V. V. Mkrtchyan

In classical game theory, optimal strategies are determined for games with complete information; this requires knowledge of the opponent's goals. We analyze games when a player is mistaken about their opponents goals. For definitiveness, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Dan Zwillinger , Paul San Clemente

We prove that it is NP-complete to decide whether a given (3-dimensional) simplicial complex is collapsible. This work extends a result of Malgouyres and Franc\'{e}s showing that it is NP-complete to decide whether a given simplicial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Martin Tancer

We fully characterize the core of a broad class of nonlinear games by identifying a suitable relaxation for inherent nonlinearity, directly generalizing the linear frameworks in the literature. This characterization significantly expands…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Donglei Du , Qizhi Fang , Bin Liu , Tianhang Lu , Chenchen Wu

We establish that the subgame perfect equilibrium (SPE) threshold problem for mean-payoff games is NP-complete. While the SPE threshold problem was recently shown to be decidable (in doubly exponential time) and NP-hard, its exact worst…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Léonard Brice , Jean-François Raskin , Marie van den Bogaard

This paper is about computing constrained approximate Nash equilibria in polymatrix games, which are succinctly represented many-player games defined by an interaction graph between the players. In a recent breakthrough, Rubinstein showed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Rahul Savani

We study the structure of the set of equilibrium payoffs in finite games, both for Nash equilibrium and correlated equilibrium. A nonempty subset of R^2 is shown to be the set of Nash equilibrium payoffs of a bimatrix game if and only if it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Ehud Lehrer , Eilon Solan , Yannick Viossat

We study a fully nonlinear free transmission problem in the presence of general degeneracy laws. Under minimal conditions on the degeneracy of the model, we establish the differentiability of viscosity solutions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Edgard A. Pimentel , David Stolnicki

This paper identifies a manifold in the space of bimatrix games which contains games that are strategically equivalent to rank-1 games through a positive affine transformation. It also presents an algorithm that can compute, in polynomial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Joseph L. Heyman

It has been shown by Bokal et al. that deciding 2-colourability of digraphs is an NP-complete problem. This result was later on extended by Feder et al. to prove that deciding whether a digraph has a circular $p$-colouring is NP-complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Winfried Hochstättler , Felix Schröder , Raphael Steiner

Coalition formation is a key problem in automated negotiation among self-interested agents, and other multiagent applications. A coalition of agents can sometimes accomplish things that the individual agents cannot, or can do things more…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Vincent Conitzer , Tuomas Sandholm

We consider two-player games played on weighted directed graphs with mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives, two classical quantitative objectives. While for single-dimensional games the complexity and memory bounds for both objectives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

A $k$-coloring of a tournament is a partition of its vertices into $k$ acyclic sets. Deciding if a tournament is 2-colorable is NP-hard. A natural problem, akin to that of coloring a 3-colorable graph with few colors, is to color a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Felix Klingelhoefer , Alantha Newman

We introduce new theoretical insights into two-population asymmetric games allowing for an elegant symmetric decomposition into two single population symmetric games. Specifically, we show how an asymmetric bimatrix game (A,B) can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Karl Tuyls , Julien Perolat , Marc Lanctot , Georg Ostrovski , Rahul Savani , Joel Leibo , Toby Ord , Thore Graepel , Shane Legg

Modern software systems may exhibit a nondeterministic behavior due to many unpredictable factors. In this work, we propose the node coverage game, a two player turn-based game played on a finite game graph, as a formalization of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Farn Wang , Jung-Hsuan Wu , Sven Schewe , Chung-Hao Huang

Recent advancements in algorithms for sequential decision-making under imperfect information have shown remarkable success in large games such as limit- and no-limit poker. These algorithms traditionally formalize the games using the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Vojtěch Kovařík , David Milec , Michal Šustr , Dominik Seitz , Viliam Lisý