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We investigate the computation of equilibria in extensive-form games where ex ante correlation is possible, focusing on correlated equilibria requiring the least amount of communication between the players and the mediator. Motivated by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Andrea Celli , Stefano Coniglio , Nicola Gatti

Boolean games are an expressive and natural formalism through which to investigate problems of strategic interaction in multiagent systems. Although they have been widely studied, almost all previous work on Nash equilibria in Boolean games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Egor Ianovski , Luke Ong

A new approach to play games quantum mechanically is proposed. We consider two players who perform measurements in an EPR-type setting. The payoff relations are defined as functions of *correlations*, i.e. without reference to classical or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Azhar Iqbal , Stefan Weigert

XOR games are a simple computational model with connections to many areas of complexity theory. Perhaps the earliest use of XOR games was in the study of quantum correlations. XOR games also have an interesting connection to Grothendieck's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-23 Jop Briet , Harry Buhrman , Troy Lee , Thomas Vidick

We consider the problem of a particular kind of quantum correlation that arises in some two-party games. In these games, one player is presented with a question they must answer, yielding an outcome of either 'win' or 'lose'. Molina and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Abel Molina , Vincent Russo

This paper gives the first formal treatment of a quantum analogue of multi-prover interactive proof systems. It is proved that the class of languages having quantum multi-prover interactive proof systems is necessarily contained in NEXP,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hirotada Kobayashi , Keiji Matsumoto

We study the problem of finding Stackelberg equilibria in games with a massive number of players. So far, the only known game instances in which the problem is solved in polynomial time are some particular congestion games. However, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Alberto Marchesi , Matteo Castiglioni , Nicola Gatti

We introduce a quantum cloning game in which $k$ separate collaborative parties receive a classical input, determining which of them has to share a maximally entangled state with an additional party (referee). We provide the optimal winning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Llorenç Escolà-Farràs , Léo Colisson Palais , Florian Speelman

Robust self-testing in non-local games allows a classical referee to certify that two untrustworthy players are able to perform a specific quantum strategy up to high precision. Proving robust self-testing results becomes significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Matthijs Vernooij , Yuming Zhao

We study the problem of deciding the winner of reachability switching games for zero-, one-, and two-player variants. Switching games provide a deterministic analogue of stochastic games. We show that the zero-player case is NL-hard, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 John Fearnley , Martin Gairing , Matthias Mnich , Rahul Savani

Quantum generalizations of conventional games broaden the range of available strategies, which can help improve outcomes for the participants. With many players, such quantum games can involve entanglement among many states which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Kay-Yut Chen , Tad Hogg , Raymond Beausoleil

Nonlocal games yield an unusual perspective on entangled quantum states. The defining property of such games is that a set of players in joint possession of an entangled state can win the game with higher probability than is allowed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Vir B. Bulchandani , Fiona J. Burnell , S. L. Sondhi

We describe a two-player non-local game, with a fixed small number of questions and answers, such that an $\epsilon$-close to optimal strategy requires an entangled state of dimension $2^{\Omega(\epsilon^{-1/8})}$. Our non-local game is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrea Coladangelo

Bell-inequality violations establish that two systems share some quantum entanglement. We give a simple test to certify that two systems share an asymptotically large amount of entanglement, n EPR states. The test is efficient: unlike…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Rui Chao , Ben W. Reichardt , Chris Sutherland , Thomas Vidick

We consider approximating the minmax value of a multi-player game in strategic form. Tightening recent bounds by Borgs et al., we observe that approximating the value with a precision of epsilon log n digits (for any constant epsilon>0 is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Peter Bro Miltersen , Troels Bjerre Sørensen

We analyse the role of degree of entanglement for Vaidman's game in a setting where the players share a set of partially entangled three-qubit states. Our results show that the entangled states combined with quantum strategies may not be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Hargeet Kaur , Atul Kumar

We present a systematic investigation of the quantum games, constructed using a novel repeated game protocol, when played repeatedly ad infinitum. We focus on establishing that such repeated games -- by virtue of inherent quantum-mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Archan Mukhopadhyay , Saikat Sur , Tanay Saha , Shubhadeep Sadhukhan , Sagar Chakraborty

We apply a Bayesian agent-based framework inspired by QBism to iterations of two quantum games, the CHSH game and the quantum prisoners' dilemma. In each two-player game, players hold beliefs about an amount of shared entanglement and about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 John B. DeBrota , Peter J. Love

We present two parallel repetition theorems for the entangled value of multi-player, one-round free games (games where the inputs come from a product distribution). Our first theorem shows that for a $k$-player free game $G$ with entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Kai-Min Chung , Xiaodi Wu , Henry Yuen

We investigate the 3-player quantum Prisoner's Dilemma with a certain strategic space, a particular Nash equilibrium that can remove the original dilemma is found. Based on this equilibrium, we show that the game is enhanced by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jiangfeng Du , Hui Li , Xiaodong Xu , Xianyi Zhou , Rongdian Han