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We study two-player zero-sum stopping games in continuous time and infinite horizon. We prove that the value in randomized stopping times exists as soon as the payoff processes are right-continuous. In particular, as opposed to existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rida Laraki , Eilon Solan

In this paper we propose a numerical method to obtain an approximation of Nash equilibria for multi-player non-cooperative games with a special structure. We consider the infinite horizon problem in a case which leads to a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Simone Cacace , Emiliano Cristiani , Maurizio Falcone

We study a differential game where two players separately control their own dynamics, pay a running cost, and moreover pay an exit cost (quitting the game) when they leave a fixed domain. In particular, each player has its own domain and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Fabio Bagagiolo , Rosario Maggistro , Marta Zoppello

We study the problem of deciding the winner of reachability switching games for zero-, one-, and two-player variants. Switching games provide a deterministic analogue of stochastic games. We show that the zero-player case is NL-hard, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 John Fearnley , Martin Gairing , Matthias Mnich , Rahul Savani

We investigate a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game problem with the state process being constrained in a connected bounded closed domain, and the cost functional described by the solution of a generalized backward stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Lishun Xiao , Dejian Tian

In this paper we investigate two-player zero-sum stochastic differential games with an ergodic payoff, in which the diffusion coefficient does not need to be non-degenerate. We first establish the existence of a viscosity solution to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Juan Li , Wenqiang Li , Yanwei Li , Huaizhong Zhao

In the present paper, we study a two-player zero-sum deterministic differential game with both players adopting impulse controls, in infinite time horizon, under rather weak assumptions on the cost functions. We prove by means of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Brahim El Asri , Hafid Lalioui , Sehail Mazid

We study the infinite horizon discrete time N-player nonzero-sum Dynkin game ($N \geq 2$) with stopping times as strategies (or pure strategies). We prove existence of an $\varepsilon$-Nash equilibrium point for the game by presenting a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Said Hamadène , Mohammed Hassani , Marie-Amélie Morlais

This paper uses recent results on continuous-time finite-horizon optimal switching problems with negative switching costs to prove the existence of a saddle point in an optimal stopping (Dynkin) game. Sufficient conditions for the game's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Randall Martyr

We adapt the Stochastic Perron's method in Bayraktar and Sirbu (ArXiv: 1103.0538) to the case of double obstacle problems associated to Dynkin games. We construct, symmetrically, a viscosity sub-solution which dominates the upper value of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-30 Erhan Bayraktar , Mihai Sirbu

We present a novel framework for {\epsilon}-optimally solving two-player zero-sum partially observable stochastic games (zs-POSGs). These games pose a major challenge due to the absence of a principled connection with dynamic programming…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Erwan Christian Escudie , Matthia Sabatelli , Olivier Buffet , Jilles Steeve Dibangoye

We consider an optimal stochastic impulse control problem over an infinite time horizon motivated by a model of irreversible investment choices with fixed adjustment costs. By employing techniques of viscosity solutions and relying on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Salvatore Federico , Mauro Rosestolato , Elisa Tacconi

We consider a zero-sum stochastic differential controller-and-stopper game in which the state process is a controlled diffusion evolving in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space. In this game, the controller affects both the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Erhan Bayraktar , Yu-Jui Huang

A finite-horizon zero-sum linear-quadratic differential game is considered. Its features are: (i) the control cost of the minimizing player in the game's cost functional is much smaller than the control cost of the maximizing player and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Valery Y. Glizer , Vladimir Turetsky

We study a nonzero-sum stochastic differential game with both players adopting impulse controls, on a finite time horizon. The objective of each player is to maximize her total expected discounted profits. The resolution methodology relies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 René Aïd , Lamia Ben Ajmia , M'hamed Gaïgi , Mohamed Mnif

We consider a two-player zero-sum deterministic differential game where each player uses both continuous and impulse controls in infinite-time horizon. We assume that the impulses supposed to be of general term and the costs depend on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Brahim El Asri , Hafid Lalioui

We examine the problem of the existence of optimal deterministic stationary strategiesintwo-players antagonistic (zero-sum) perfect information stochastic games with finitely many states and actions.We show that the existenceof such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Hugo Gimbert , Wieslaw Zielonka

We consider N-player and mean field games in continuous time over a finite horizon, where the position of each agent belongs to {-1,1}. If there is uniqueness of mean field game solutions, e.g. under monotonicity assumptions, then the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Alekos Cecchin , Paolo Dai Pra , Markus Fischer , Guglielmo Pelino

We study a general class of nonlinear second-order variational inequalities with interconnected bilateral obstacles, related to a multiple modes switching game. Under rather weak assumptions, using systems of penalized unilateral backward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene , Marie Amelie Morlais

This paper studies a discrete-time optimal switching problem on a finite horizon. The underlying model has a running reward, terminal reward and signed (positive and negative) switching costs. Using the martingale approach to optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Randall Martyr