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We study two-player games of infinite duration that are played on finite or infinite game graphs. A winning strategy for such a game is positional if it only depends on the current position, and not on the history of the play. A game is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-08-29 Erich Graedel , Igor Walukiewicz

We consider 2-player games played on a finite state space for infinite rounds. The games are concurrent: in each round, the two players choose their moves simultaneously; the current state and the moves determine the successor. We consider…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Krishnendu Chatterjee

Absolute combinatorial game theory was recently developed as a unifying tool for constructive/local game comparison (Larsson et al. 2018). The theory concerns {\em parental universes} of combinatorial games; standard closure properties are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 U. Larsson , R. J. Nowakowski , C. P. Santos

We consider parity games on infinite graphs where configurations are represented by control-states and integer vectors. This framework subsumes two classic game problems: parity games on vector addition systems with states (vass) and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Richard Mayr , Arnaud Sangnier , Jeremy Sproston

An infinite game on the set of real numbers appeared in Matthew Baker's work [Math. Mag. 80 (2007), no. 5, pp. 377--380] in which he asks whether it can help characterize countable subsets of the reals. This question is in a similar spirit…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Tonatiuh Matos-Wiederhold , Luciano Salvetti

We investigate the existence of certain types of equilibria (Nash, $\varepsilon$-Nash, subgame perfect, $\varepsilon$-subgame perfect, Pareto-optimal) in multi-player multi-outcome infinite sequential games. We use two fundamental…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly

M\"uller games form a well-established class of games for model checking and verification. These games are played on directed graphs $\mathcal G$ where Player 0 and Player 1 play by generating an infinite path through the graph. The winner…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zihui Liang , Bakh Khoussainov , Mingyu Xiao

We study variants of regular infinite games where the strict alternation of moves between the two players is subject to modifications. The second player may postpone a move for a finite number of steps, or, in other words, exploit in his…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Michael Holtmann , Lukasz Kaiser , Wolfgang Thomas

Stochastic games are an important class of problems that generalize Markov decision processes to game theoretic scenarios. We consider finite state two-player zero-sum stochastic games over an infinite time horizon with discounted rewards.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Parikshit Shah , Pablo A. Parrilo

We consider games played on an infinite probabilistic arena where the first player aims at satisfying generalized B\"uchi objectives almost surely, i.e., with probability one. We provide a fixpoint characterization of the winning sets and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Nathalie Bertrand , Philippe Schnoebelen

The article studies topological games that arise in the study of the continuity of operations in groups with topology, such as paratopological and semitopological groups. These games are modifications of the Banach--Mazur game. Given a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Evgenii Reznichenko

In this paper we study continuous-time two-player zero-sum optimal switching games on a finite horizon. Using the theory of doubly reflected BSDEs with interconnected barriers, we show that this game has a value and an equilibrium in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Said Hamadène , Randall Martyr , John Moriarty

This paper provides sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions for two-person zero-sum games with inf/sup-compact payoff functions and with possibly noncompact decision sets for both players. Payoff functions may be unbounded, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Eugene A. Feinberg , Pavlo O. Kasyanov , Michael Z. Zgurovsky

We derive multiparty games that, if the winning chance exceeds a certain limit, prove the incompatibility of the parties' causal relations with any partial order. This, in turn, means that the parties exert a back-action on the causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Eleftherios-Ermis Tselentis , Ämin Baumeler

Using methods from the statistical mechanics of disordered systems we analyze the properties of bimatrix games with random payoffs in the limit where the number of pure strategies of each player tends to infinity. We analytically calculate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Johannes Berg

We study infinite two-player games where one of the players is unsure about the set of moves available to the other player. In particular, the set of moves of the other player is a strict superset of what she assumes it to be. We explore…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Nicholas Asher , Soumya Paul

The space of finite games can be decomposed into three orthogonal subspaces [5], which are the subspaces of pure potential games, nonstrategic games and pure harmonic games. The orthogonal projections onto these subspaces are represented as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Kuize Zhang

We give an algorithm for solving stochastic parity games with almost-sure winning conditions on {\it lossy channel systems}, under the constraint that both players are restricted to finite-memory strategies. First, we describe a general…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Lorenzo Clemente , Richard Mayr , Sven Sandberg

We are interested in the convergence of the value of n-stage games as n goes to infinity and the existence of the uniform value in stochastic games with a general set of states and finite sets of actions where the transition is commutative.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Xavier Venel

Infinite games where several players seek to coordinate under imperfect information are known to be intractable, unless the information flow is severely restricted. Examples of undecidable cases typically feature a situation where players…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Dietmar Berwanger , Anup Basil Mathew