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We prove an asymptotic Lipschitz estimate for value functions of tug-of-war games with varying probabilities defined in $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$. The method of the proof is based on a game-theoretic idea to estimate the value of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Ángel Arroyo , Hannes Luiro , Mikko Parviainen , Eero Ruosteenoja

We study a tug-of-war game with varying probabilities. In particular, we show that the value of the game is locally asymptotically H\"{o}lder continuous. We also show the existence and uniqueness of values of the game. As an application, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Ángel Arroyo , Joonas Heino , Mikko Parviainen

We consider the obstacle problem for the infinity Laplace equation. Given a Lipschitz boundary function and a Lipschitz obstacle we prove the existence and uniqueness of a super infinity-harmonic function constrained to lie above the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Juan J. Manfredi , Julio D. Rossi , Stephanie J. Somersille

We give a proof of Lipschitz continuity of p-harmonious functions, that are tug-of-war game analogies of ordinary p-harmonic functions. This result is used to obtain a new proof of Harnack's inequality for p-harmonic functions in the case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Hannes Luiro , Mikko Parviainen , Eero Saksman

In this paper, we study a certain type of noisy tug-of-war game which can be regarded as an interpretation of a certain type of boundary value problem for the normalized $p$-Laplace equation, where $1<p<2$. More precisely, we will…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Jeongmin Han

We prove local Lipschitz continuity and Harnack's inequality for value functions of the stochastic game tug-of-war with noise and running payoff. As a consequence, we obtain game-theoretic proofs for the same regularity properties for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Eero Ruosteenoja

In this paper, we are concerned with game-theoretic interpretations to the following oblique derivative boundary value problem \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta_{p}^{N}u=0 & \textrm{in $ \Omega$,}\\ \langle \beta , Du \rangle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Jeongmin Han

This paper concerns value functions of time-dependent tug-of-war games. We first prove the existence and uniqueness of value functions and verify that these game values satisfy a dynamic programming principle. Using the arguments in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Jeongmin Han

We propose a new finite difference approximation to the Dirichlet problem for the homogeneous $\mathbf{p}$-Laplace equation posed on an $N$-dimensional domain, in connection with the Tug of War games with noise. Our game and the related…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Marta Lewicka

We study local regularity properties of value functions of time-dependent tug-of-war games. For games with constant probabilities we get local Lipschitz continuity. For more general games with probabilities depending on space and time we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Mikko Parviainen , Eero Ruosteenoja

We consider a class of stochastic processes and establish its connection to $p$-harmonic functions. In particular, we obtain stochastic approximations that converge uniformly to a $p$-harmonic function, with an explicit convergence rate,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Hannes Luiro , Mikko Parviainen

Pointwise estimates for the gradient of solutions to the $p$-Laplace system with right-hand side in divergence form are established. They enable us to develop a nonlinear counterpart of the classical Calder\'on-Zygmund theory in terms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Dominic Breit , Andrea Cianchi , Lars Diening , Tuomo Kuusi , Sebastian Schwarzacher

Despite the significant potential for various applications, stochastic games with long-run average payoffs have received limited scholarly attention, particularly concerning the development of learning algorithms for them due to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Junyue Zhang , Yifen Mu

In this note we show that gradient of Harmonic functions on a smooth domain with Lipschitz boundary values is pointwise bounded by a universal function which is in $L^p$ for all finite $p\geq 1$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Nikos Katzourakis

We prove that for any constant $K\geq1$, the value functions for time homogeneous stochastic differential games in the whole space can be approximated up to a constant over $K$ by value functions whose second-order derivatives are bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-04 N. V. Krylov

We consider the gradient method with variable step size for minimizing functions that are definable in o-minimal structures on the real field and differentiable with locally Lipschitz gradients. We prove that global convergence holds if…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Cédric Josz

In this paper, we investigate a class of tug-of-war games that incorporate a constant payoff discount rate at each turn. The associated model problems are $p$-Laplace type partial differential equations with zeroth-order terms. We establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Jeongmin Han

In this paper, we provide a generalization of the forward-backward splitting algorithm for minimizing the sum of a proper convex lower semicontinuous function and a differentiable convex function whose gradient satisfies a locally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Luis M. Briceno-Arias , Francisco José Silva , Xianjin Yang

In this paper, we study games with continuous action spaces and non-linear payoff functions. Our key insight is that Lipschitz continuity of the payoff function allows us to provide algorithms for finding approximate equilibria in these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Paul Spirakis

We prove that every Lipschitz function from a subset of a locally compact length space to a metric tree has a unique absolutely minimal Lipschitz extension (AMLE). We relate these extensions to a stochastic game called {\bf Politics} - a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-17 Assaf Naor , Scott Sheffield
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