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In this paper, we study the average case complexity of the Unique Games problem. We propose a natural semi-random model, in which a unique game instance is generated in several steps. First an adversary selects a completely satisfiable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-20 Alexandra Kolla , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

We consider stochastic differential games with $N$ nearly identical players, linear-Gaussian dynamics, and infinite horizon discounted quadratic cost. Admissible controls are feedbacks for which the system is ergodic. We first study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Fabio S. Priuli

This paper develops a unified framework for zero-sum games in which both the pure strategies and the payoff matrices contain complex-valued entries. By leveraging a linear isomorphism between complex and real vector spaces, we extend key…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Raneem Madani , Abdel Lisser , Zeno Toffano

We consider time-dependent viscous Mean-Field Games systems in the case of local, decreasing and unbounded coupling. These systems arise in mean-field game theory, and describe Nash equilibria of games with a large number of agents aiming…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Marco Cirant , Daniela Tonon

We study algorithmic complexity of solving subtraction games in a~fixed dimension with a finite difference set. We prove that there exists a game in this class such that any algorithm solving the game runs in exponential time. Also we prove…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Vladimir Gurvich , Michael Vyalyi

Parity games are simple infinite games played on finite graphs with a winning condition that is expressive enough to capture nested least and greatest fixpoints. Through their tight relationship to the modal mu-calculus, they are used in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Tom van Dijk

The use of monotonicity and Tarski's theorem in existence proofs of equilibria is very widespread in economics, while Tarski's theorem is also often used for similar purposes in the context of verification. However, there has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Kousha Etessami , Christos Papadimitriou , Aviad Rubinstein , Mihalis Yannakakis

Proving that there are problems in $\mathsf{P}^\mathsf{NP}$ that require boolean circuits of super-linear size is a major frontier in complexity theory. While such lower bounds are known for larger complexity classes, existing results only…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jan Bydzovsky , Jan Krajicek , Igor C. Oliveira

Let D = { d_n } be a countable collection of Delta^1_3 degrees. Assuming that all co-analytic games on integers are determined (or equivalently that all reals have ``sharps''), we prove that either D has a Delta^1_3-minimal upper bound, or…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Philip Welch

We consider two-player games played on weighted directed graphs with mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives, two classical quantitative objectives. While for single-dimensional games the complexity and memory bounds for both objectives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

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

Cooperative games with nonempty core are called balanced, and the set of balanced games is a polyhedron. Given a game with empty core, we look for the closest balanced game, in the sense of the (weighted) Euclidean distance, i.e., the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Pedro García-Segador , Michel Grabisch , Dylan Laplace Mermoud , Pedro Miranda

We study the applicability of quantum algorithms in computational game theory and generalize some results related to Subtraction games, which are sometimes referred to as one-heap Nim games. In quantum game theory, a subset of Subtraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Dmitry Kravchenko , Kamil Khadiev , Danil Serov , Ruslan Kapralov

We generalize H\r{a}stad's long-code test for projection games and show that it remains complete and sound against entangled provers. Combined with a result of Dong et al. \cite{Dong25}, which establishes that $\MIP^*=\RE$ with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Aviv Taller , Thomas Vidick

In this work we study rank-one quantum games. In particular, we focus on the study of the computability of the entangled value $\omega^*$. We show that the value $\omega^*$ can be efficiently approximated up to a multiplicative factor of 4.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 T. Cooney , M. Junge , C. Palazuelos , D. Pérez-García

This paper initiates the study of a class of entangled games, mono-state games, denoted by $(G,\psi)$, where $G$ is a two-player one-round game and $\psi$ is a bipartite state independent of the game $G$. In the mono-state game $(G,\psi)$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Penghui Yao

Bell-inequality violations establish that two systems share some quantum entanglement. We give a simple test to certify that two systems share an asymptotically large amount of entanglement, n EPR states. The test is efficient: unlike…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Rui Chao , Ben W. Reichardt , Chris Sutherland , Thomas Vidick

We study two-player zero-sum recursive games with a countable state space and finite action spaces at each state. When the family of $n$-stage values $\{v_n,n\geq 1\}$ is totally bounded for the uniform norm, we prove the existence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Xiaoxi Li , Xavier Venel

A central question in routing games has been to establish conditions for the uniqueness of the equilibrium, either in terms of network topology or in terms of costs. This question is well understood in two classes of routing games. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Eitan Altman , Corinne Touati

This paper, and its companion [BCLV24], are devoted to a negative resolution of the Aldous--Lyons Conjecture [AL07, Ald07]. In this part we study tailored non-local games. This is a subclass of non-local games -- combinatorial objects which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Lewis Bowen , Michael Chapman , Thomas Vidick