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We consider infinite-state turn-based stochastic games of two players, Box and Diamond, who aim at maximizing and minimizing the expected total reward accumulated along a run, respectively. Since the total accumulated reward is unbounded,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-09 Tomáš Brázdil , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný

In many multiagent environments, a designer has some, but limited control over the game being played. In this paper, we formalize this by considering incompletely specified games, in which some entries of the payoff matrices can be chosen…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Markus Brill , Rupert Freeman , Vincent Conitzer

In the present paper we consider one class of zero-sum games with discontinuous payoffs which may have no solutions in the sets of pure or mixed strategies. We show that, however, the solution always exists in the set of so-called $\mathcal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-15 V. Derr , D. Kinzebulatov

Traditional solvable game theory and mean-field-type game theory (risk-aware games) predominantly focus on quadratic costs due to their analytical tractability. Nevertheless, they often fail to capture critical non-linearities inherent in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Julian Barreiro-Gomez , Tyrone E. Duncan , Bozenna Pasik-Duncan , Hamidou Tembine

We consider a system of ODE in a Fr\'echet space with unconditional Schauder basis. The right side of the ODE is a discontinuous function. Under certain monotonicity conditions we prove an existence theorem for the corresponding initial…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Oleg Zubelevich

Shapley (1953) introduced two-player zero-sum discounted stochastic games, henceforth stochastic games, a model where a state variable follows a two-controlled Markov chain, the players receive rewards at each stage which add up to $0$, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Bruno Jaffuel , Miquel Oliu-Barton

We study infinite horizon discounted-cost and ergodic-cost risk-sensitive zero-sum stochastic games for controlled continuous time Markov chains on a countable state space. For the discounted-cost game we prove the existence of value and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Mrinal K. Ghosh , K. Suresh Kumar , Chandan Pal

We study first order evolutive Mean Field Games whose operators are non-coercive. This situation occurs, for instance, when some directions are `forbidden' to the generic player at some points. Under some regularity assumptions, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Carlo Mariconda , Nicoletta Tchou

We consider multiplayer stochastic games in which the payoff of each player is a bounded and Borel-measurable function of the infinite play. By using a generalization of the technique of Martin (1998) and Maitra and Sudderth (1998), we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 János Flesch , Eilon Solan

In recent decades, the defect of finite extensions of valued fields has emerged as the main obstacle in several fundamental problems in algebraic geometry such as the local uniformization problem. Hence, it is important to identify…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Caio Henrique Silva de Souza , Mark Spivakovsky

We present a new notion of solution for mean field games master equations. This notion allows us to work with solutions which are merely continuous. We prove first results of uniqueness and stability for such solutions. It turns out that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Charles Bertucci

In this paper we provide three new results axiomatizing the core of games in characteristic function form (not necessarily having transferable utility) obeying an innocuous condition (that the set of individually rational pay-off vectors is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-10-01 Anindya Bhattacharya

We study zero-sum differential games with state constraints and one-sided information, where the informed player (Player 1) has a categorical payoff type unknown to the uninformed player (Player 2). The goal of Player 1 is to minimize his…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Mukesh Ghimire , Lei Zhang , Zhe Xu , Yi Ren

We study synchronous values of games, especially synchronous games. It is known that a synchronous game has a perfect strategy if and only if it has a perfect synchronous strategy. However, we give examples of synchronous games, in…

I present a formal connection between algebraic effects and game semantics, two important lines of work in programming languages semantics with applications in compositional software verification. Specifically, the algebraic signature…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Jérémie Koenig

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the constrained MFG system as the time horizon $T$ goes to infinity. For this purpose, we analyze first Hamilton-Jacobi equations with state constraints from the viewpoint of weak KAM theory,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Piermarco Cannarsa , Wei Cheng , Cristian Mendico , Kaizhi Wang

We study unique games and estimate some of their values. We prove that if a unique game has a quantum-assisted value close to 1, then it must have a perfect deterministic strategy. We introduce a family of unique games based on groups that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Rupert H. Levene , Vern I. Paulsen

Nonzero sum games typically have multiple Nash equilibriums (or no equilibrium), and unlike the zero sum case, they may have different values at different equilibriums. Instead of focusing on the existence of individual equilibriums, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Zachary Feinstein , Birgit Rudloff , Jianfeng Zhang

We study two-player zero-sum games over infinite-state graphs with boundedness conditions. Our first contribution is about the strategy complexity, i.e the memory required for winning strategies: we prove that over general infinite-state…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathanaël Fijalkow

Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2.5-player zero-sum graph games with a reachability objective. The problem is to compute the winning probability as well as the optimal strategies of both players. In this paper, we compare the three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jan Kretinsky , Emanuel Ramneantu , Alexander Slivinskiy , Maximilian Weininger