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We show that, by using multiplicative weights in a game-theoretic thought experiment (and an important convexity result on the composition of multiplicative weights with the relative entropy function), a symmetric bimatrix game (that is, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ioannis Avramopoulos

We study alternating parity good-for-games (GFG) automata, i.e., alternating parity automata where both conjunctive and disjunctive choices can be resolved in an online manner, without knowledge of the suffix of the input word still to be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Udi Boker , Denis Kuperberg , Karoliina Lehtinen , Michał Skrzypczak

First, we consider the problem of deciding whether a nonlocal game admits a perfect entangled strategy that uses projective measurements on a maximally entangled shared state. Via a polynomial-time Karp reduction, we show that independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Laura Mančinska , David E. Roberson , Antonios Varvitsiotis

We study testable implications of multiple equilibria in discrete games with incomplete information. Unlike de Paula and Tang (2012), we allow the players' private signals to be correlated. In static games, we leverage independence of…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-12-03 Aureo de Paula , Xun Tang

We introduce a class of normal play partizan games, called Complementary Subtraction. Let $A$ denote your favorite set of positive integers. This is Left's subtraction set, whereas Right subtracts numbers not in $A$. The Golden Nugget…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Urban Larsson , Neil A. McKay , Richard J. Nowakowski , Angela A. Siegel

We consider an assignment problem that has aspects of fair division as well as social choice. In particular, we investigate the problem of assigning a small subset from a set of indivisible items to multiple players so that the chosen…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Warut Suksompong

We study the following combinatorial game played by two players, Alice and Bob, which generalizes the Pizza game considered by Brown, Winkler and others. Given a connected graph G with nonnegative weights assigned to its vertices, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Josef Cibulka , Jan Kynčl , Viola Mészáros , Rudolf Stolař , Pavel Valtr

We investigate concurrent two-player win/lose stochastic games on finite graphs with prefix-independent objectives. We characterize subgame optimal strategies and use this characterization to show various memory transfer results: 1) For a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Benjamin Bordais , Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux

The paper is devoted to inverse Stackelberg games with many players. We consider both static and differential games. The main assumption of the paper is the compactness of the strategy sets. We obtain the characterization of inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Yurii Averboukh

We offer some theorems, mainly of finiteness, for certain patterns in elliptical billiards, related to periodic trajectories. For instance, if two players hit a ball at a given position and with directions forming a fixed angle in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Pietro Corvaja , Umberto Zannier

In the context of multiplayer games, the parallel repetition problem can be phrased as follows: given a game $G$ with optimal winning probability $1-\alpha$ and its repeated version $G^n$ (in which $n$ games are played together, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Rotem Arnon , Renato Renner , Thomas Vidick

In a two-player game, two cooperating but non communicating players, Alice and Bob, receive inputs taken from a probability distribution. Each of them produces an output and they win the game if they satisfy some predicate on their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-22 André Chailloux , Giannicola Scarpa

We propose an interpretation of the infinite sum of combinatorial games. In such an interpretation, plays involve infinite runs, but without loops. The notion of a run is quite natural, but different possibilities arises for the notion of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Paolo Lipparini

Given a dynamic ordinal game, we deem a strategy sequentially rational if there exist a Bernoulli utility function and a conditional probability system with respect to which the strategy is a maximizer. We establish a complete class theorem…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-12-07 Pierfrancesco Guarino

Equilibrium solution concepts of normal-form games, such as Nash equilibria, correlated equilibria, and coarse correlated equilibria, describe the joint strategy profiles from which no player has incentive to unilaterally deviate. They are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Luke Marris , Ian Gemp , Georgios Piliouras

Schmidt games and the Cantor winning property give alternative notions of largeness, similar to the more standard notions of measure and category. Being intuitive, flexible, and applicable to recent research made them an active object of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Dzmitry Badziahin , Stephen Harrap , Erez Nesharim , David Simmons

Promoting behavioural diversity is critical for solving games with non-transitive dynamics where strategic cycles exist, and there is no consistent winner (e.g., Rock-Paper-Scissors). Yet, there is a lack of rigorous treatment for defining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Nicolas Perez Nieves , Yaodong Yang , Oliver Slumbers , David Henry Mguni , Ying Wen , Jun Wang

We study the classical game of peg solitaire when diagonal jumps are allowed. We prove that on many boards, one can begin from a full board with one peg missing, and finish with one peg anywhere on the board. We then consider the problem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 George I. Bell

The connected domination game is played just as the domination game, with an additional requirement that at each stage of the game the vertices played induce a connected subgraph. The number of moves in a D-game (an S-game, resp.) on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

This paper considers a natural ruleset for playing a partisan combinatorial game on a directed graph, which we call Digraph Placement. Given a digraph $G$ with a not necessarily proper $2$-coloring of $V(G)$, the Digraph Placement game…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Alexander Clow , Neil A McKay