English
Related papers

Related papers: Affine Normal Play

200 papers

We study the effectiveness of iterated elimination of strictly-dominated actions in random games. We show that dominance solvability of games is vanishingly small as the number of at least one player's actions grows. Furthermore,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-05-25 Noga Alon , Kirill Rudov , Leeat Yariv

Infinite chess is chess played on an infinite edgeless chessboard. The familiar chess pieces move about according to their usual chess rules, and each player strives to place the opposing king into checkmate. The mate-in-n problem of…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-05-17 Dan Brumleve , Joel David Hamkins , Philipp Schlicht

We introduce parallelism into the basic algebra of games to model concurrent game algebraically. Parallelism is treated as a new kind of game operation. The resulted algebra of concurrent games can be used widely to reason the parallel…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yong Wang

We classify affine varieties with an action of a connected, reductive algebraic group such that the group is isomorphic to an open orbit in the variety. This is accomplished by associating a set of one-parameter subgroups of the group to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-20 David Murphy

This paper addresses several significant gaps in the theory of restricted mis\`ere play (Plambeck, Siegel 2008), primarily in the well-studied universe of dead-ending games, $\mathcal{E}$ (Milley, Renault 2013); if a player run out of moves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Urban Larsson , Rebecca Milley , Richard Nowakowski , Gabriel Renault , Carlos Santos

Pursuing a new approach to the study of infinite games in combinatorics, we introduce the categories $\mathbf{Game}_{A}$ and $\mathbf{Game}_{B}$ and improve some classical results concerning topological games related to the duality between…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Matheus Duzi , Paul Szeptycki , Walter Tholen

Any nonempty, compact, semi-algebraic set in [0, 1] n is the projection of the set of mixed equilibria of a finite game with 2 actions per player on its first n coordinates. A similar result follows for sets of equilibrium payoffs. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Guillaume Vigeral , Yannick Viossat

We study the computational complexity of finding stable outcomes in hedonic games, which are a class of coalition formation games. We restrict our attention to symmetric additively-separable hedonic games, which are a nontrivial subclass of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Martin Gairing , Rahul Savani

Combinatorial games are played under two different play conventions: normal play, where the last player to move wins, and \mis play, where the last player to move loses. Combinatorial games are also classified into impartial positions and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-25 Meghan Rose Allen

This paper concerns two-player alternating play combinatorial games (Conway 1976) in the normal-play convention, i.e. last move wins. Specifically, we study impartial vector subtraction games on tuples of nonnegative integers (Golomb 1966),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Urban Larsson , Indrajit Saha , Makoto Yokoo

We present a definition for the sum of a sequence of combinatorial games. This sum coincides with the classical sum in the case of a converging sequence of real numbers and with the infinitary natural sum in the case of a sequence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Paolo Lipparini

Affine continuous logic is extended to affine integration logic. Affine compactness theorem is proved by both the ultramean construction and Henkin's method. Also, a proof system and a completeness theorem are given. An appropriate variant…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Seyed-Mohammad Bagheri

In combinatorial game theory, the winning player for a position in normal play is analyzed and characterized via algebraic operations. Such analyses define a value for each position, called a game value. A game (ruleset) is called universal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Kanae Yoshiwatari , Hironori Kiya , Koki Suetsugu , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono

Given a morphism from an affine semigroup Q to an arbitrary commutative monoid, it is shown that every fiber possesses an affine stratification: a partition into a finite disjoint union of translates of normal affine semigroups. The proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Ezra Miller

This paper has two central aims: first, to provide simple conditions under which the generalized games in choice form and, consequently, the abstract economies, admit equilibrium; second, to study the solvability of several types of systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Monica Patriche

Heifetz, Meier, and Schipper (2013) introduced dynamic game with unawareness consisting of a partially ordered set of games in extensive form. Here, we study the normal form of dynamic games with unawareness. The generalized normal form…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Burkhard C. Schipper

Combinatorial Scoring games, with the property `extra pass moves for a player does no harm', are characterized. The characterization involves an order embedding of Conway's Normal-play games. Also, we give a theorem for comparing games with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Urban Larsson , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

We fully characterize the core of a broad class of nonlinear games by identifying a suitable relaxation for inherent nonlinearity, directly generalizing the linear frameworks in the literature. This characterization significantly expands…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Donglei Du , Qizhi Fang , Bin Liu , Tianhang Lu , Chenchen Wu

The study focuses on strategic-form games extended in the Eisert-Wilkens-Lewenstein scheme by two unitary operations. Conditions are determined under which the pair of unitary operators, along with classical strategies, form a game…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Piotr Frąckiewicz , Anna Gorczyca-Goraj , Marek Szopa

The semigroup game is a two-person zero-sum game defined on a semigroup S as follows: Players 1 and 2 choose elements x and y in S, respectively, and player 1 receives a payoff f(xy) defined by a function f from S to [-1,1]. If the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Valerio Capraro , Kent Morrison