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We prove well-posedness of a class of kinetic-type Mean Field Games, which typically arise when agents control their acceleration. Such systems include independent variables representing the spatial position as well as velocity. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-20 David M. Ambrose , Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

A modular semilattice is a semilattice generalization of a modular lattice. We establish a Birkhoff-type representation theorem for modular semilattices, which says that every modular semilattice is isomorphic to the family of ideals in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Hiroshi Hirai , So Nakashima

We prove the Pisot Conjecture for beta-substitutions: If beta is a Pisot number, the tiling dynamical system associated with the beta-substitution has pure discrete spectrum. As corollaries: (1) arithmetical coding of the hyperbolic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Marcy Barge

This paper studies a two-player nonzero-sum stochastic differential game governed by a controlled convection-diffusion stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with spatially heterogeneous coefficients. The diffusion and transport…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Nacira Agram , Eya Zougar

Positional games are a branch of combinatorics, researching a variety of two-player games, ranging from popular recreational games such as Tic-Tac-Toe and Hex, to purely abstract games played on graphs and hypergraphs. It is closely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Michael Krivelevich

Let $X$ be a (real or complex) infinite dimensional linear space. We establish conditions on a homogeneous polynomial $P$ on $X$ so that, if $W$ is any finite dimensional subspace of $X$ on which $P$ vanishes, then $P$ vanishes on an…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Mikaela Aires , Geraldo Botelho

We begin by reviewing and proving the basic facts of combinatorial game theory. We then consider scoring games (also known as Milnor games or positional games), focusing on the "fixed-length" games for which all sequences of play terminate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Will Johnson

Given $n$ piles of tokens and a positive integer $k \leq n$, we study the following two impartial combinatorial games Nim$^1_{n, \leq k}$ and Nim$^1_{n, =k}$. In the first (resp. second) game, a player, by one move, chooses at least $1$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Vladimir Gurvich , Nhan Bao Ho

We use sets of assignments, a.k.a. teams, and measures on them to define probabilities of first-order formulas in given data. We then axiomatise first-order properties of such probabilities and prove a completeness theorem for our…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Tapani Hyttinen , Gianluca Paolini , Jouko Väänänen

Wythoff's game is a modification of the well-known game of ``nim." Wythoff's game, which does not resemble the Fibonacci sequence, has direct relation to the Golden ratio. We will explore the sequence behind this surprising relationship,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Vincent Wang , Nikhil Sampath , Eric Yule , Ethan Wang

A Hamiltonian formulation of generic many-particle systems with space-dependent balanced loss and gain coefficients is presented. It is shown that the balancing of loss and gain necessarily occurs in a pair-wise fashion. Further, using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Debdeep Sinha , Pijush K. Ghosh

It was shown in Flesch and Solan (2022) with a rather involved proof that all two-player stochastic games with finite state and action spaces and shift-invariant payoffs admit an $\epsilon$-equilibrium, for every $\epsilon>0$. Their proof…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Galit Ashkenazi-Golan , János Flesch , Eilon Solan

We introduce and study Maker/Breaker-type positional games on random graphs. Our main concern is to determine the threshold probability $p_{F}$ for the existence of Maker's strategy to claim a member of $F$ in the unbiased game played on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Milos Stojakovic , Tibor Szabo

Hirschfeldt and Jockusch (2016) introduced a two-player game in which winning strategies for one or the other player precisely correspond to implications and non-implications between $\Pi^1_2$ principles over $\omega$-models of…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Damir D. Dzhafarov , Denis R. Hirschfeldt , Sarah C. Reitzes

We study best-response type learning dynamics for zero-sum polymatrix games under two information settings. The two settings are distinguished by the type of information that each player has about the game and their opponents' strategy. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Fathima Zarin Faizal , Asuman Ozdaglar , Martin J. Wainwright

We study the biased $(1:b)$ Maker--Breaker positional games, played on the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$. Given Breaker's bias $b$, possibly depending on $n$, we determine the bounds for the minimal number of moves,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Mirjana Mikalački , Miloš Stojaković

A hyperbolic-like group is a subgroup of $\operatorname{Homeo}_+(S^1)$ such that every non-trivial element has exactly two fixed points, one attracting and one repelling. We investigate the ping-pong dynamics of hyperbolic-like groups,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-03 KyeongRo Kim , Michele Triestino

For any transitive piecewise monotonic map for which the set of periodic measures is dense in the set of ergodic invariant measures (such as monotonic mod one transformations and piecewise monotonic maps with two monotonic pieces), we show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Yushi Nakano , Kenichiro Yamamoto

Bayesian regression games are a special class of two-player general-sum Bayesian games in which the learner is partially informed about the adversary's objective through a Bayesian prior. This formulation captures the uncertainty in regard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Wenshuo Guo , Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin

In this note, we use the concept of a polynomial ring to give an elementary proof to Cayley-Hamilton Theorem. We also give an elementary proof to Birkhoff theorem on Bi-stochastic matrices.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Yifan Ren , Tongsuo Wu