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This paper provides sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions for two-person zero-sum games with inf/sup-compact payoff functions and with possibly noncompact decision sets for both players. Payoff functions may be unbounded, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Eugene A. Feinberg , Pavlo O. Kasyanov , Michael Z. Zgurovsky

Game theory provides a general mathematical background to study the effect of pair interactions and evolutionary rules on the macroscopic behavior of multi-player games where players with a finite number of strategies may represent a wide…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-20 Gyorgy Szabo , Istvan Borsos

We introduce consumption games, a model for discrete interactive system with multiple resources that are consumed or reloaded independently. More precisely, a consumption game is a finite-state graph where each transition is labeled by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Tomáš Brázdil , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný

This paper contributes to the study of positional determinacy of infinite duration games played on potentially infinite graphs with neutral transitions. Recently, [Ohlmann, TheoretiCS 2023] established that positionality of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Antonio Casares , Pierre Ohlmann , Michał Skrzypczak , Igor Walukiewicz

A new mathematical model for evolutionary games on graphs is proposed to extend the classical replicator equation to finite populations of players organized on a network with generic topology. Classical results from game theory,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Dario Madeo , Chiara Mocenni

A natural partial ordering exists on the set of all weighted games and, more broadly, on all linear games. We describe several properties of the partially ordered sets formed by these games and utilize this perspective to enumerate proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Sarah Mason , Jason Parsley

We use a reformulation of compositional game theory to reunite game theory with game semantics, by viewing an open game as the System and its choice of contexts as the Environment. Specifically, the system is jointly controlled by $n \geq…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Jules Hedges

The convergence of online learning algorithms in games under self-play is a fundamental question in game theory and machine learning. Among various notions of convergence, last-iterate convergence is particularly desirable, as it reflects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yang Cai , Haipeng Luo , Chen-Yu Wei , Weiqiang Zheng

To understand the complexity of the dynamic of learning in differential games, we decompose the game into components where the dynamic is well understood. One of the possible tools is Helmholtz's theorem, which can decompose a vector field…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Nanxiang Zhou , Jing Dong , Yutian Li , Baoxiang Wang

A combinatorial game is a two-player game without hidden information or chance elements. One of the major approaches to analyzing games in combinatorial game theory is to break down a given game position into a disjunctive sum of multiple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Kengo Hashimoto

We develop value iteration-based algorithms to solve in a unified manner different classes of combinatorial zero-sum games with mean-payoff type rewards. These algorithms rely on an oracle, evaluating the dynamic programming operator up to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xavier Allamigeon , Stéphane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz , Mateusz Skomra

Partial-monitoring games constitute a mathematical framework for sequential decision making problems with imperfect feedback: The learner repeatedly chooses an action, opponent responds with an outcome, and then the learner suffers a loss…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-13 András Antos , Gábor Bartók , Dávid Pál , Csaba Szepesvári

A combinatorial game is a two-player game without hidden information or chance elements. The main object of combinatorial game theory is to obtain the outcome, which player has a winning strategy, of a given combinatorial game. Positions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Kengo Hashimoto

In a monotonic sequence game, two players alternately choose elements of a sequence from some fixed ordered set. The game ends when the resulting sequence contains either an ascending subsequence of length a or a descending one of length d.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Albert , R. Aldred , M. Atkinson , C. Handley , D. Holton , D. McCaughan , B. Sagan

We establish a generic result concerning order independence of a dominance relation on finite games. It allows us to draw conclusions about order independence of various dominance relations in a direct and simple way.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-06 Krzysztof R. Apt

This work is a contribution to the study of rewrite games. Positions are finite words, and the possible moves are defined by a finite number of local rewriting rules. We introduce and investigate taking-and-merging games, that is, where…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eric Duchêne , Victor Marsault , Aline Parreau , Michel Rigo

Despite the many recent practical and theoretical breakthroughs in computational game theory, equilibrium finding in extensive-form team games remains a significant challenge. While NP-hard in the worst case, there are provably efficient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Brian Hu Zhang , Tuomas Sandholm

In Combinatorial Game Theory, short game forms are defined recursively over all the positions the two players are allowed to move to. A form is decomposable if it can be expressed as a disjunctive sum of two forms with smaller birthday. If…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Michael Fisher , Neil A. McKay , Rebecca Milley , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

Weighted Timed Games (WTG for short) are the most widely used model to describe controller synthesis problems involving real-time issues. Unfortunately, they are notoriously difficult, and undecidable in general. As a consequence, one-clock…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Benjamin Monmege , Julie Parreaux , Pierre-Alain Reynier

Infinite games where several players seek to coordinate under imperfect information are deemed to be undecidable, unless the information is hierarchically ordered among the players. We identify a class of games for which joint winning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Dietmar Berwanger , Anup Basil Mathew