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In this paper, we study nonzero-sum separable games, which are continuous games whose payoffs take a sum-of-products form. Included in this subclass are all finite games and polynomial games. We investigate the structure of equilibria in…

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In the context of simple finite-state discrete time systems, we introduce a generalization of mean field game solution, called correlated solution, which can be seen as the mean field game analogue of a correlated equilibrium. Our notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Luciano Campi , Markus Fischer

We compute a parametric description of the totally mixed Nash equilibria of a generic game in normal form with pre-fixed structure. Using this representation, we show conditions under which a game has the maximum possible number of this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Jeronimo , D. Perrucci , J. Sabia

By resorting to the vector space structure of finite games, skew-symmetric games (SSGs) are proposed and investigated as a natural subspace of finite games. First of all, for two player games, it is shown that the skew-symmetric games form…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Yaqi Hao , Daizhan Cheng

We propose efficient no-regret learning dynamics and ellipsoid-based methods for computing linear correlated equilibria$\unicode{x2014}$a relaxation of correlated equilibria and a strengthening of coarse correlated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Constantinos Daskalakis , Gabriele Farina , Maxwell Fishelson , Charilaos Pipis , Jon Schneider

Polynomial optimization problems often arise in sequences indexed by dimension, and it is of interest to compute bounds on the optimal values of all problems in the sequence. Examples include certifying inequalities between symmetric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran

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

We show that in any $n$-player $m$-action normal-form game, we can obtain an approximate equilibrium by sampling any mixed-action equilibrium a small number of times. We study three types of equilibria: Nash, correlated and coarse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Yakov Babichenko , Siddharth Barman , Ron Peretz

We study the iteration complexity of decentralized learning of approximate correlated equilibria in incomplete information games. On the negative side, we prove that in $\mathit{extensive}$-$\mathit{form}$ $\mathit{games}$, assuming…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Binghui Peng , Aviad Rubinstein

Equilibrium solution concepts of normal-form games, such as Nash equilibria, correlated equilibria, and coarse correlated equilibria, describe the joint strategy profiles from which no player has incentive to unilaterally deviate. They are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Luke Marris , Ian Gemp , Georgios Piliouras

Two-player complete-information game trees are perhaps the simplest possible setting for studying general-sum games and the computational problem of finding equilibria. These games admit a simple bottom-up algorithm for finding subgame…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Michael L. Littman , Nishkam Ravi , Arjun Talwar , Martin Zinkevich

We propose a general class of symmetric games called position-optimization games. Given a probability distribution $Q$ over a set of targets $\mathcal{Y}$, the $n$ players each choose a position in a space $\mathcal{X}$. A player's utility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Rafael Frongillo , Melody Hsu , Mary Monroe , Anish Thilagar

We present a new method for computation of the index of completely mixed equilibria in finite games, based on the work of Eisenbud et al.(1977). We apply this method to solving two questions about the relation of the index of equilibria and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-19 Lucas Pahl

In this paper I will unite two games, symplectic billiards and tiling billiards. The new game is called symplectic tiling billiards. I will prove a result about periodic orbits of symplectic tiling billiards in a very special case and then…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Richard Evan Schwartz

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

Equilibria of realistic multiplayer games constitute a key solution concept both in practical applications, such as online advertising auctions and electricity markets, and in analytical frameworks used to study strategic voting in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jakub Černý , Shuvomoy Das Gupta , Christian Kroer

We present an algebraic framework for the analysis of combinatorial games. This framework embraces the classical theory of partizan games as well as a number of misere games, comply-constrain games, and card games that have been studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Johan Wästlund

We establish the existence and uniqueness of distributed equilibria to possibly nonsymmetric $N$ player differential games with interactions through controls under displacement semimonotonicity assumptions. Surprisingly, the nonseparable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Hei Jie Lam , Alpár R. Mészáros

We give two new constructions of the harmonic algebra of a lattice polytope $P$, a bigraded algebra whose character is the $q$-Ehrhart series of $P$ defined by Reiner and Rhoades. First, we show that the harmonic algebra is the associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Ian Cavey

We define and analyze the notion of variational Wardrop equilibrium for nonatomic aggregative games with an infinity of players types. These equilibria are characterized through an infinite-dimensional variational inequality. We show, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Paulin Jacquot , Cheng Wan