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Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

In the context of large population symmetric games, approximate Nash equilibria are introduced through equilibrium solutions of the corresponding mean field game in the sense that the individual gain from optimal unilateral deviation under…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mao Fabrice Djete , Nizar Touzi

Let F be a holomorphic map whose components satisfy some polynomial relations. We present an algorithm for constructing Nash maps locally approximating F, whose components satisfy the same relations.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Marcin Bilski , Peter Scheiblechner

For a closed connected surface with a metric g, we consider the regularized trace of the inverse of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. We minimize this on the class of smooth metrics conformal to g having the same area, and show that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Kate Okikiolu

This paper presents a novel data-driven approach for approximating the $\varepsilon$-Nash equilibrium in continuous-time linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) games, where multiple agents interact with each other through their dynamics and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zhenhui Xu , Jiayu Chen , Bing-Chang Wang , Tielong Shen

We show that the isoperimetric profile $h_{g(t)}(\xi)$ of a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ is jointly continuous when metrics $g(t)$ vary continuously. We also show that, when $M$ is a compact surface and $g(t)$ evolves under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Yizhong Zheng

We show that in any $n$-player $m$-action normal-form game, we can obtain an approximate equilibrium by sampling any mixed-action equilibrium a small number of times. We study three types of equilibria: Nash, correlated and coarse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Yakov Babichenko , Siddharth Barman , Ron Peretz

Equilibria of realistic multiplayer games constitute a key solution concept both in practical applications, such as online advertising auctions and electricity markets, and in analytical frameworks used to study strategic voting in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jakub Černý , Shuvomoy Das Gupta , Christian Kroer

In this paper, we investigate a distributed Nash equilibrium computation problem for a time-varying multi-agent network consisting of two subnetworks, where the two subnetworks share the same objective function. We first propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Youcheng Lou , Yiguang Hong , Lihua Xie , Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson

This note offers a first bridge from machine learning to modern differential geometry. We show that the logits-to-probabilities step implemented by softmax can be modeled as a geometric interface: two potential-generated, conservative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Christopher R. Lee-Jenkins

We establish a correspondence between trisections of smooth, compact, oriented $4$--manifolds with connected boundary and diagrams describing these trisected $4$--manifolds. Such a diagram comes in the form of a compact, oriented surface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Nickolas A. Castro , David T. Gay , Juanita Pinzón-Caicedo

We show a Whitney Approximation Theorem for a continuous map from a manifold to a smooth CW complex. This enables us to show that a topological CW complex is homotopy equivalent to a smooth CW complex in a category of topological spaces. It…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Norio Iwase

Nash equilibrium is a popular solution concept for solving imperfect-information games in practice. However, it has a major drawback: it does not preclude suboptimal play in branches of the game tree that are not reached in equilibrium.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Christian Kroer , Gabriele Farina , Tuomas Sandholm

In this paper, we introduce a novel equilibrium concept, called the equilibrium cycle, which seeks to capture the outcome of oscillatory game dynamics. Unlike the (pure) Nash equilibrium, which defines a fixed point of mutual best…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-07 Tushar Shankar Walunj , Shiksha Singhal , Veeraruna Kavitha , Jayakrishnan Nair

A solution manifold is the collection of points in a $d$-dimensional space satisfying a system of $s$ equations with $s<d$. Solution manifolds occur in several statistical problems including hypothesis testing, curved-exponential families,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Yen-Chi Chen

This short note aims at (re)proving that the symmetrically normalized graph Laplacian $L=\Id - D^{-1/2}WD^{-1/2}$ (from a graph defined from a Gaussian weighting kernel on a sampled smooth manifold) converges towards the continuous Manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Laurent Jacques

We relate the graph isomorphism problem to the solvability of certain systems of linear equations with nonnegative variables. This version replaces the two previous versions of this paper.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-01-10 Shmuel Friedland

We consider the motion of an incompressible viscous fluid that completely covers a smooth, compact and embedded hypersurface $\Sigma$ without boundary and flows along $\Sigma$. Local-in-time well-posedness is established in the framework of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

In this paper we present a novel generic mapping between Graphical Games and Markov Random Fields so that pure Nash equilibria in the former can be found by statistical inference on the latter. Thus, the problem of deciding whether a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Constantinos Daskalakis

We discuss the characterization of relative equilibria of Lagrangian systems with symmetry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-09 M. Crampin , T. Mestdag