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We consider dynamic programming problems with a large time horizon, and give sufficient conditions for the existence of the uniform value. As a consequence, we obtain an existence result when the state space is precompact, payoffs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-04-20 Jérôme Renault

We study a class of zero-sum stochastic games between a stopper and a singular-controller, previously considered in [Bovo and De Angelis (2025)]. The underlying singularly-controlled dynamics takes values in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Andrea Bovo , Alessandro Milazzo

We study zero-sum stochastic differential games with player dynamics governed by a nondegenerate controlled diffusion process. Under the assumption of uniform stability, we establish the existence of a solution to the Isaac's equation for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Vivek S. Borkar , K. Suresh Kumar

Bewley and Kohlberg (1976) and Mertens and Neyman (1981) have proved, respectively, the existence of the asymptotic value and the uniform value in zero-sum stochastic games with finite state space and finite action sets. In their work, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Bruno Ziliotto

This paper deals with N-person nonzero-sum discrete-time Markov games under a probability criterion, in which the transition probabilities and reward functions are allowed to vary with time. Differing from the existing works on the expected…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Xin Guo , Xin Wen

We study zero-sum stochastic differential games where the state dynamics of the two players is governed by a generalized McKean-Vlasov (or mean-field) stochastic differential equation in which the distribution of both state and controls of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Huyen Pham , Andrea Cosso

We consider the general model of zero-sum repeated games (or stochastic games with signals), and assume that one of the players is fully informed and controls the transitions of the state variable. We prove the existence of the uniform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-04-20 Jérôme Renault

We study a zero-sum stochastic differential game (SDG) in which one controller plays an impulse control while their opponent plays a stochastic control. We consider an asymmetric setting in which the impulse player commits to, at the start…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Parsiad Azimzadeh

In \emph{zero-sum two-player hidden stochastic games}, players observe partial information about the state. We address: $(i)$ the existence of the \emph{uniform value}, i.e., a limiting average payoff that both players can guarantee for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Krishnendu Chatterjee , David Lurie , Raimundo Saona , Bruno Ziliotto

This paper aims to solve two fundamental problems on finite or infinite horizon dynamic games with perfect or almost perfect information. Under some mild conditions, we prove (1) the existence of subgame-perfect equilibria in general…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2015-04-01 Wei He , Yeneng Sun

In this paper we investigate two-player zero-sum stochastic differential games with an ergodic payoff, in which the diffusion coefficient does not need to be non-degenerate. We first establish the existence of a viscosity solution to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Juan Li , Wenqiang Li , Yanwei Li , Huaizhong Zhao

We consider a finite-horizon, zero-sum game in which both players control a stochastic differential equation by invoking impulses. We derive a control randomization formulation of the game and use the existence of a value for the randomized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Magnus Perninge

We consider a game, in which the dynamics is described by a non-linear Volterra integral equation of Hammerstein type with a weakly-singular kernel and the goals of the first and second players are, respectively, to minimize and maximize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

Zero sum games with risk-sensitive cost criterion are considered with underlying dynamics being given by controlled stochastic differential equations. Under the assumption of geometric stability on the dynamics , we completely characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Anup Biswas , Subhamay Saha

A zero-sum differential game with controlled jump-diffusion driven state is considered, and studied using a combination of dynamic programming and viscosity solution techniques. We prove, under certain conditions, that the value of the game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-28 Imran H. Biswas

This paper presents new families of algorithms for the repeated play of two-agent (near) zero-sum games and two-agent zero-sum stochastic games. For example, the family includes fictitious play and its variants as members. Commonly, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuksel Arslantas , Ege Yuceel , Yigit Yalin , Muhammed O. Sayin

We investigate a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game in which the players have an asymmetric information on the random payoff. We prove that the game has a value and characterize this value in terms of dual solutions of some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer

Trusting in others and reciprocating that trust with trustworthy actions are crucial to successful and prosperous societies. The Trust Game has been widely used to quantitatively study trust and trustworthiness, involving a sequential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ik Soo Lim

We consider discrete time partially observable zero-sum stochastic game with average payoff criterion. We study the game using an equivalent completely observable game. We show that the game has a value and also we come up with a pair of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Subhamay Saha

We study continuity properties of stochastic game problems with respect to various topologies on information structures, defined as probability measures characterizing a game. We will establish continuity properties of the value function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Ian Hogeboom-Burr , Serdar Yüksel