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We prove three conjectures of Fraenkel and Ho regarding two classes of variants of Wythoff's game. The two classes of variants of Wythoff's game feature restrictions of the diagonal moves. Each conjecture states that the Sprague-Grundy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Madeleine Weinstein

In this paper, we resolve the computational complexity of a number of outstanding open problems with practical applications. Here is the list of problems we show to be PPAD-complete, along with the domains of practical significance:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-04-10 Shiva Kintali , Laura J. Poplawski , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Ravi Sundaram , Shang-Hua Teng

We introduce several methods of decomposition for two player normal form games. Viewing the set of all games as a vector space, we exhibit explicit orthonormal bases for the subspaces of potential games, zero-sum games, and their orthogonal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Sung-Ha Hwang , Luc Rey-Bellet

We study the problem of finding Stackelberg equilibria in games with a massive number of players. So far, the only known game instances in which the problem is solved in polynomial time are some particular congestion games. However, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Alberto Marchesi , Matteo Castiglioni , Nicola Gatti

We characterize all the pairs of complementary non-homogenous Beatty sequences $(A_n)_{n\ge 0}$ and $(B_n)_{n\ge 0}$ for which there exists an invariant game having exactly $\{(A_n,B_n)\mid n\ge 0\}\cup \{(B_n,A_n)\mid n\ge 0\}$ as set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Julien Cassaigne , Eric Duchêne , Michel Rigo

We present a general technique, based on a primal-dual formulation, for analyzing the quality of self-emerging solutions in weighted congestion games. With respect to traditional combinatorial approaches, the primal-dual schema has at least…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-26 Vittorio Bilò

We establish the existence and uniqueness of weak and renormalized solutions to a degenerate, hypoelliptic Mean Field Games system with local coupling. An important step is to obtain $L^{\infty}-$bounds for solutions to a degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Nikiforos Mimikos-Stamatopoulos

Zero-sum Dynkin games under Poisson constraints, where players can only stop at the event times of a Poisson process, have been studied widely in the recent literature. The constraint can be modelled in two ways: either both players share…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 David Hobson , Gechun Liang , Edward Wang

Subtraction games is a class of combinatorial games. It was solved since the Sprague-Grundy Theory was put forward. This paper described a new algorithm for subtraction games. The new algorithm can find win or lost positions in subtraction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Guanglei He , Zhihui Qin

Subtraction games are a class of impartial combinatorial games whose positions correspond to nonnegative integers and whose moves correspond to subtracting one of a fixed set of numbers from the current position. Though they are easy to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Nathan Fox

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

Inspired by the theory of poset games, we introduce a new compound of impartial combinatorial games and provide a complete analysis in the spirit of the Sprague-Grundy theory. Furthermore, we establish several substitution and reduction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Mišo Gavrilović , Alexander Thumm

Parity games are positionally determined. This is a fundamental and classical result. In 2010, Calude et al. showed a breakthrough result for finite parity games: the winning regions and their positional winning strategies can be computed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Volker Diekert , Manfred Kufleitner

We consider one-round games between a classical referee and two players. One of the main questions in this area is the parallel repetition question: Is there a way to decrease the maximum winning probability of a game without increasing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 Julia Kempe , Thomas Vidick

We propose a unifying additive theory for standard conventions in Combinatorial Game Theory, including normal-, mis\`ere- and scoring-play, studied by Berlekamp, Conway, Dorbec, Ettinger, Guy, Larsson, Milley, Neto, Nowakowski, Renault,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Urban Larsson , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

The paper is devoted to inverse Stackelberg games with many players. We consider both static and differential games. The main assumption of the paper is the compactness of the strategy sets. We obtain the characterization of inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Yurii Averboukh

A new class of multi-player competitive stochastic games in discrete-time with an affine specification of the redistribution of payoffs at exercise is proposed and examined. Our games cover as a very special case the classic two-person…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Ivan Guo , Marek Rutkowski

We introduce a new class of totally balanced cooperative TU games, namely p -additive games. It is inspired by the class of inventory games that arises from inventory situations with temporary discounts (Toledo, 2002) and contains the class…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ana Meca , Luis A. Guardiola , Andrés Toledo

The proper equilibrium, introduced by Myerson (1978), is a classic refinement of the Nash equilibrium that has been referred to as the "mother of all refinements." For normal-form games, computing a proper equilibrium is known to be…

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

Initially stated in terms of Beatty sequences, the Fraenkel conjecture can be reformulated as follows: for a $k$-letter alphabet A, with a fixed $k \geq 3$, there exists a unique balanced infinite word, up to letter permutations and shifts,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Geneviève Paquin , Christophe Reutenauer