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We present an index theory of equilibria for extensive form games. This requires developing an index theory for games where the strategy sets of players are general polytopes and their payoff functions are multiaffine in the product of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-07-04 Lucas Pahl

We begin by reviewing and proving the basic facts of combinatorial game theory. We then consider scoring games (also known as Milnor games or positional games), focusing on the "fixed-length" games for which all sequences of play terminate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Will Johnson

Orthogonal decomposition of tensors is a generalization of the singular value decomposition of matrices. In this paper, we study the spectral theory of orthogonally decomposable tensors. For such a tensor, we give a description of its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Elina Robeva , Anna Seigal

This paper studies the monotonicity of equilibrium costs and equilibrium loads in nonatomic congestion games, in response to variations of the demands. The main goal is to identify conditions under which a paradoxical non-monotone behavior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Roberto Cominetti , Valerio Dose , Marco Scarsini

The analysis of observable phenomena (for instance, in biology or physics) allows the detection of dynamical behaviors and, conversely, starting from a desired behavior allows the design of objects exhibiting that behavior in engineering.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Antonio E. Porreca , Marius Rolland

Polar decompositions of quaternion matrices with respect to a given indefinite inner product are studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an $H$-polar decomposition are found. In the process an equivalent to Witt's…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 G. J. Groenewald , D. B. Janse van Rensburg , A. C. M. Ran , F. Theron , M. van Straaten

We encode arbitrary finite impartial combinatorial games in terms of lattice points in rational convex polyhedra. Encodings provided by these \emph{lattice games} can be made particularly efficient for octal games, which we generalize to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-25 Alan Guo , Ezra Miller

In this paper, an orthogonal mode decomposition method is proposed to decompose ffnite length real signals on both the real and imaginary axes of the complex plane. The interpolation function space of ffnite length discrete signal is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Ning Li , Lezhi Li

In~[1],authors considered a general finite horizon model of dynamic game of asymmetric information, where N players have types evolving as independent Markovian process, where each player observes its own type perfectly and actions of all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Deepanshu Vasal

In this paper we will discuss scoring play games. We will give the basic definitions for scoring play games, and show that they form a well defined set, with clear and distinct outcome classes under these definitions. We will also show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Fraser Stewart

Capacitated network bargaining games are popular combinatorial games that involve the structure of matchings in graphs. We show that it is always possible to stabilize unit-weight instances of this problem (that is, ensure that they admit a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Laura Sanità , Lucy Verberk

In this paper we study the set of tensors that admit a special type of decomposition called an orthogonal tensor train decomposition. Finding equations defining varieties of low-rank tensors is generally a hard problem, however, the set of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Pardis Semnani , Elina Robeva

Recently, in [K.R. Apt and S. Simon: Well-founded extensive games with perfect information, TARK21], we studied well-founded games, a natural extension of finite extensive games with perfect information in which all plays are finite. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Krzysztof R. Apt , Sunil Simon

Here, we observe that mean-field game (MFG) systems admit a two-player infinite-dimensional general-sum differential game formulation. We show that particular regimes of this game reduce to previously known variational principles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Marco Cirant , Levon Nurbekyan

We propose a general conjecture on decompositions of finite simple groups as products of conjugates of an arbitrary subset. We prove this conjecture for bounded subsets of arbitrary finite simple groups, and for large subsets of groups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Martin Liebeck , Nikolay Nikolov , Aner Shalev

Combinatorial games lead to several interesting, clean problems in algorithms and complexity theory, many of which remain open. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the area to encourage further research. In particular, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Erik D. Demaine , Robert A. Hearn

Energy games are a well-studied class of 2-player turn-based games on a finite graph where transitions are labeled with integer vectors which represent changes in a multidimensional resource (the energy). One player tries to keep the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Piotr Hofman , Richard Mayr , K. Narayan Kumar , Patrick Totzke

We present several new characterizations of correlated equilibria in games with continuous utility functions. These have the advantage of being more computationally and analytically tractable than the standard definition in terms of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Noah D. Stein , Pablo A. Parrilo , Asuman Ozdaglar

Fictitious play (FP) is one of the most fundamental game-theoretical learning frameworks for computing Nash equilibrium in $n$-player games, which builds the foundation for modern multi-agent learning algorithms. Although FP has provable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yurong Chen , Xiaotie Deng , Chenchen Li , David Mguni , Jun Wang , Xiang Yan , Yaodong Yang

Once failure is irreversible, continuation payoffs cannot be meaningfully aggregated across strategies that differ in their survival properties. Standard scalar evaluation sidesteps this by arbitrarily completing payoffs beyond termination,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-10 Nicholas H. Kirk