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This paper focuses on zero-sum stochastic differential games in the framework of forward-backward stochastic differential equations on a finite time horizon with both players adopting impulse controls. By means of BSDE methods, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Liangquan Zhang

This investigation is dedicated to a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game (SDG), where a cost function is characterized by a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with a continuous and monotonic generator regarding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Guangchen Wang , Zhuangzhuang Xing

This paper uses recent results on continuous-time finite-horizon optimal switching problems with negative switching costs to prove the existence of a saddle point in an optimal stopping (Dynkin) game. Sufficient conditions for the game's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Randall Martyr

We study nonzero-sum stochastic switching games. Two players compete for market dominance through controlling (via timing options) the discrete-state market regime $M$. Switching decisions are driven by a continuous stochastic factor $X$…

General Economics · Economics 2018-07-23 Liangchen Li , Michael Ludkovski

We study a two-player, zero-sum, stochastic game with incomplete information on one side in which the players are allowed to play more and more frequently. The informed player observes the realization of a Markov chain on which the payoffs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer , Dinah Rosenberg , Nicolas Vieille

In this paper, we investigate the existence and characterization of the value for a two-player zero-sum differential game with symmetric incomplete information on a continuum of initial positions and with signal revelation. Before the game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Xiaochi Wu

In this paper, which is a continuation of the previously published discrete time paper we develop a theory for continuous time stochastic control problems which, in various ways, are time inconsistent in the sense that they do not admit a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Tomas Björk , Mariana Khapko , Agatha Murgoci

We prove that for a class of zero-sum differential games with incomplete information on both sides, the value admits a probabilistic representation as the value of a zero-sum stochastic differential game with complete information, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Fabien Gensbittel , Catherine Rainer

We consider time-homogeneous uniformly nondegenerate stochastic differential games in domains and propose constructing $\varepsilon$-optimal strategies and policies by using adjoint Markov strategies and adjoint Markov policies which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 N. V. Krylov

We study zero-sum games in the space of probability distributions over the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ with entropy regularization, in the setting when the interaction function between the players is smooth and strongly convex-strongly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yang Cai , Siddharth Mitra , Xiuyuan Wang , Andre Wibisono

This paper considers a class of reinforcement-learning that belongs to the family of Learning Automata and provides a stochastic-stability analysis in strategic-form games. For this class of dynamics, convergence to pure Nash equilibria has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Georgios C. Chasparis

This paper characterizes differentiable and subgame Markov perfect equilibria in a continuous time intertemporal decision problem with non-constant discounting. Capturing the idea of non commitment by letting the commitment period being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-08-29 Ivar Ekeland , Ali Lazrak

The paper is concerned with a zero-sum differential game in the case where a payoff is determined by the exit time, that is, the first time when the system leaves the game domain. Additionally, we assume that a part of domain's boundary is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Ekaterina Kolpakova

We consider the problem of computing optimal policies in average-reward Markov decision processes. This classical problem can be formulated as a linear program directly amenable to saddle-point optimization methods, albeit with a number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Joan Bas-Serrano , Gergely Neu

Motivated by a product pricing problem, a linear-quadratic Stackelberg differential game for a regime switching system involving one leader and two followers is studied. The two followers engage in a zero-sum differential game, and both the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Pengyan Huang , Na Li , Zuo Quan Xu , Harry Zheng

This paper focuses on stochastic saddle point problems with decision-dependent distributions. These are problems whose objective is the expected value of a stochastic payoff function and whose data distribution drifts in response to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Killian Wood , Emiliano Dall'Anese

In the present paper, we study a two-player zero-sum deterministic differential game with both players adopting impulse controls, in infinite time horizon, under rather weak assumptions on the cost functions. We prove by means of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Brahim El Asri , Hafid Lalioui , Sehail Mazid

In a probabilistic mean field game driven by a L\'evy process an individual player aims to minimize a long run discounted/ergodic cost by controlling the process through a pair of increasing and decreasing c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Facundo Oliú

This paper is related to nonzero-sum stochastic differential games in the Markovian framework. We show existence of a Nash equilibrium point for the game when the drift is no longer bounded and only satisfies a linear growth condition. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Said Hamadène , Rui Mu

A general model for zero-sum stochastic games with asymmetric information is considered. In this model, each player's information at each time can be divided into a common information part and a private information part. Under certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Dhruva Kartik , Ashutosh Nayyar