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Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Castellan , Pierre Clairambault , Glynn Winskel

This work introduces a unified framework for analyzing games in greater depth. In the existing literature, players' strategies are typically assigned scalar values, and equilibrium concepts are used to identify compatible choices. However,…

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In this paper, we consider $\mathcal{L}\mathcal{R}$-ending partisan rulesets as a branch of combinatorial game theory. In these rulesets, the sets of options of both players are the same. However, there are two kinds of terminal positions.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Hiroki Inazu , Shun-ichi Kimura , Koki Suetsugu

The focus of this essay is a rigorous treatment of infinite games. An infinite game is defined as a play consisting of a fixed number of players whose sequence of moves is repeated, or iterated ad infinitum. Each sequence corresponds to a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Thomas Kellam Meyer

It is known that the generalized Nash equilibrium problem can be reformulated as a quasivariational inequality. Our aim in this work is to introduce a variational approach to study the existence of solutions for generalized ordinal Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Orestes Bueno , John Cotrina , Yboon García

Correlated equilibria -- and their generalization $\Phi$-equilibria -- are a fundamental object of study in game theory, offering a more tractable alternative to Nash equilibria in multi-player settings. While computational aspects of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Gabriele Farina

A framework for discussing relationships between different types of games is proposed. Within the framework, quantum simultaneous games, finite quantum simultaneous games, quantum sequential games, and finite quantum sequential games are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-06 Naoki Kobayashi

Inspired by the theory of poset games, we introduce a new compound of impartial combinatorial games and provide a complete analysis in the spirit of the Sprague-Grundy theory. Furthermore, we establish several substitution and reduction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Mišo Gavrilović , Alexander Thumm

Finite games in normal form and their mixed extensions are a corner stone of noncooperative game theory. Often generic finite games and their mixed extensions are considered. But the properties which one expects in generic games and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Claus Hertling , Matija Vujic

We introduce parallelism into the basic algebra of games to model concurrent game algebraically. Parallelism is treated as a new kind of game operation. The resulted algebra of concurrent games can be used widely to reason the parallel…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yong Wang

Repeated games have a long tradition in the behavioral sciences and evolutionary biology. Recently, strategies were discovered that permit an unprecedented level of control over repeated interactions by enabling a player to unilaterally…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-25 Alex McAvoy , Christoph Hauert

This paper introduces a new solution concept for non-cooperative games in normal form with no ties and pure strategies: the Perfectly Transparent Equilibrium. The players are rational in all possible worlds and know each other's strategies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ghislain Fourny

In recent work, Watanabe, Eberhart, Asada, and Hasuo have shown that parity games can be seen as string diagrams, that is, as the morphisms of a symmetric monoidal category, an algebraic structure with two different operations of…

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This paper investigates some necessary and sufficient conditions for a game to be a potential game. At first, we extend the classical results of Slade and Monderer and Shapley from games with one-dimensional action spaces to games with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Sina Arefizadeh , Angelia Nedich , Gautam Dasarathy

We survey recent developments in the theory of impartial combinatorial games in misere play, focusing on how the Sprague-Grundy theory of normal-play impartial games generalizes to misere play via the indistinguishability quotient…

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The Grothendieck universe axiom asserts that every set is a member of some set-theoretic universe U that is itself a set. One can then work with entities like the category of all U-sets or even the category of all locally U-small…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Zhen Lin Low

In this paper, we investigate a partially observable zero sum games where the state process is a discrete time Markov chain. We consider a general utility function in the optimization criterion. We show the existence of value for both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Arnab Bhabak , Subhamay saha

Algorithmic game theory (AGT) focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for interacting agents, with interactions rigorously formalized within the framework of games. Results from AGT find applications in domains such as online…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Ian Gemp , Sridhar Mahadevan

Categories of polymorphic lenses in computer science, and of open games in compositional game theory, have a curious structure that is reminiscent of compact closed categories, but differs in some crucial ways. Specifically they have a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Jules Hedges

We study two impartial games introduced by Anderson and Harary and further developed by Barnes. Both games are played by two players who alternately select previously unselected elements of a finite group. The first player who builds a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Dana C. Ernst , Nandor Sieben