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In many multiagent environments, a designer has some, but limited control over the game being played. In this paper, we formalize this by considering incompletely specified games, in which some entries of the payoff matrices can be chosen…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Markus Brill , Rupert Freeman , Vincent Conitzer

We develop a symmetric monoidal closed category of games, incorporating sums and products, to model quantum computation at higher types. This model is expressive, capable of representing all unitary operators at base types. It is compatible…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Samson Abramsky , Radha Jagadeesan

Covering spaces of graphs have long been useful for studying expanders (as "graph lifts") and unique games (as the "label-extended graph"). In this paper we advocate for the thesis that there is a much deeper relationship between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Joshua A. Grochow , Jamie Tucker-Foltz

We investigate the space complexity of certain perfect matching problems over bipartite graphs embedded on surfaces of constant genus (orientable or non-orientable). We show that the problems of deciding whether such graphs have (1) a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-29 Samir Datta , Raghav Kulkarni , Raghunath Tewari , N. V. Vinodchandran

We investigate quantitative extensions of modal logic and the modal mu-calculus, and study the question whether the tight connection between logic and games can be lifted from the qualitative logics to their quantitative counterparts. It…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Diana Fischer , Erich Grädel , Lukasz Kaiser

We consider a class of two-player zero-sum stochastic games with finite state and compact control spaces, which we call stochastic shortest path (SSP) games. They are undiscounted total cost stochastic dynamic games that have a cost-free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Huizhen Yu

We study the problem of computing stationary Nash equilibria in discounted perfect information stochastic games from the viewpoint of computational complexity. For two-player games we prove the problem to be in PPAD, which together with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Xinhao Nie

We construct a non-locality game that can be won with certainty by a quantum strategy using log n shared EPR-pairs, while any classical strategy has winning probability at most 1/2+O(log n/sqrt{n}). This improves upon a recent result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-15 Harry Buhrman , Giannicola Scarpa , Ronald de Wolf

We study a generalization of nonlocal games---which we call extended nonlocal games---in which the players, Alice and Bob, initially share a tripartite quantum state with the referee. In such games, the winning conditions for Alice and Bob…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Nathaniel Johnston , Rajat Mittal , Vincent Russo , John Watrous

We generalize Banica's construction of the quantum isometry group of a metric space to the class of quantum metric spaces in the sense of Kuperberg and Weaver. We also introduce quantum isometries between two quantum metric spaces, and we…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Kari Eifler

Game Theory studies situations in which multiple agents having conflicting objectives have to reach a collective decision. The question of a compact representation language for agents utility function is of crucial importance since the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Thi-Van-Anh Nguyen , Arnaud Lallouet

Nonlocal games provide application-level benchmarks for quantum hardware whose classical performance bounds are information-theoretic, holding against all classical strategies regardless of computational resources. We implement a 14-vertex…

Weighted timed games are played by two players on a timed automaton equipped with weights: one player wants to minimise the accumulated weight while reaching a target, while the other has an opposite objective. Used in a reactive synthesis…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Damien Busatto-Gaston , Benjamin Monmege , Pierre-Alain Reynier

The present paper introduces a novel notion of `(effective) computability', called viability, of strategies in game semantics in an intrinsic (i.e., without recourse to the standard Church-Turing computability), non-inductive and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Norihiro Yamada

We develop an algebraic and operational framework for quantum isomorphisms of hypergraphs, using tools from compact quantum group theory. We introduce a new synchronous version of the hypergraph isomorphism game whose game algebra uniformly…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Georgios Baziotis , Alexandros Chatzinikolaou , Gage Hoefer

The complexity of computing equilibrium refinements has been at the forefront of algorithmic game theory research, but it has remained open in the seminal class of potential games; we close this fundamental gap in this paper. We first show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ioannis Anagnostides , Maria-Florina Balcan , Kiriaki Fragkia , Tuomas Sandholm , Emanuel Tewolde , Brian Hu Zhang

It is well-known that for infinitely repeated games, there are computable strategies that have best responses, but no computable best responses. These results were originally proved for either specific games (e.g., Prisoner's dilemma), or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jakub Dargaj , Jakob Grue Simonsen

Fortification-interdiction games are tri-level adversarial games where two opponents act in succession to protect, disrupt and simply use an infrastructure for a specific purpose. Many such games have been formulated and tackled in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Alberto Boggio Tomasaz , Margarida Carvalho , Roberto Cordone , Pierre Hosteins

We study a general scenario of simultaneous contests that allocate prizes based on equal sharing: each contest awards its prize to all players who satisfy some contest-specific criterion, and the value of this prize to a winner decreases as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Edith Elkind , Abheek Ghosh , Paul W. Goldberg

This paper is about computing constrained approximate Nash equilibria in polymatrix games, which are succinctly represented many-player games defined by an interaction graph between the players. In a recent breakthrough, Rubinstein showed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Rahul Savani