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This paper studies asymmetric Ebert's Hat Problem with five players where the probability of the colors may be unequal. We obtain maximal winning probabilities and optimal winning strategies using the concept of adequate sets.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Theo van Uem

Prisoner's dilemma has been heavily studied. In classical model, each player chooses to either "Cooperate" or "Defect". In this paper, we generalize the prisoner's dilemma with a new alternative which is neither defect or cooperation. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Xinyang Deng , Qi Liu , Yong Deng

Repeated quantum game theory addresses long term relations among players who choose quantum strategies. In the conventional quantum game theory, single round quantum games or at most finitely repeated games have been widely studied, however…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Kazuki Ikeda , Shoto Aoki

Quantum game theory is a recently developing field of physical research. In this paper, we investigate quantum games in a systematic way. With the famous instance of the Prisoner's Dilemma, we present the fascinating properties of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiangfeng Du , Xiaodong Xu , Hui Li , Xianyi Zhou , Rongdian Han

Conventional noncooperative game theory hypothesizes that the joint strategy of a set of players in a game must satisfy an "equilibrium concept". All other joint strategies are considered impossible; the only issue is what equilibrium…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Wolpert

The Prisoners' Dilemma is perhaps the most famous model in the field of game theory. Consequently, it is natural to investigate its quantum version when one considers to apply quantum strategies to game theory. There are two main results in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Haoyang Wu

This paper explores the use of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) in strategic game experiments, specifically the ultimatum game and the prisoner's dilemma. I designed prompts and architectures to enable GPT to understand the game…

General Economics · Economics 2023-12-12 Fulin Guo

In Problem #1542 of Mathematics Magazine, Grossman and Turett define the Cantor game. In his 2007 Mathematics Magazine article about the Cantor game, Matt Baker proves several results and poses three challenging questions about it: Do there…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Magnus D. LaDue

The locker puzzle is a game played by multiple players against a referee. It has been previously shown that the best strategy that exists cannot succeed with probability greater than 1-ln2 \approx 0.31, no matter how many players are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 David Avis , Anne Broadbent

Synchronization, cooperation, and chaos are ubiquitous phenomena in nature. In a population composed of many distinct groups of individuals playing the prisoner's dilemma game, there exists a migration dilemma: No cooperator would migrate…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-22 Shubhadeep Sadhukhan , Rohitashwa Chattopadhyay , Sagar Chakraborty

We study the Levine hat problem, a cooperative puzzle introduced by Lionel Levine in 2010, in which $n \geq 2$ players must simultaneously identify a black hat on their own infinite stack, each seeing only their teammates' stacks. While the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Clément Bouquet , Salah Chikhi , Timothé Charles , Yanghao Zhou , Eric Wang

I present the results from a spatial model of the prisoner's dilemma, played on a toroidal lattice. Each individual has a default strategy of either cooperating ($C$) or defecting ($D$). Two strategies were tested, including ``tit-for-tat''…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-04 Gregg Hartvigsen

Gallice and Monzon (2019) present a natural environment that sustains full cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of self-interested agents. They demonstrate that in a sequential public goods game, where agents lack…

General Economics · Economics 2025-04-15 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Konstantinos Georgalos , Sonali SenGupta

We initiate the study of the hat guessing number of a graph where the adversary is only allowed to provide a proper coloring of the graph. This is the largest number $q$ for which there is a guessing strategy on each vertex that only…

We start with the well-known game below: Two players hold a sheet of paper to their forehead on which a positive integer is written. The numbers are consecutive and each player can only see the number of the other one. In each time step,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Felix Günther , Irina Mustata

In the context of multiplayer games, the parallel repetition problem can be phrased as follows: given a game $G$ with optimal winning probability $1-\alpha$ and its repeated version $G^n$ (in which $n$ games are played together, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Rotem Arnon , Renato Renner , Thomas Vidick

We characterize the initial positions from which the first player has a winning strategy in a certain two-player game. This provides a generalization of Hall's theorem. Vizing's edge coloring theorem follows from a special case.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Landon Rabern

We study the emergency of mutual cooperation in evolutionary prisoner's dilemma games when the players are located on a square lattice. The players can choose one of the three strategies: cooperation (C), defection (D) or "tit for tat" (T),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gyorgy Szabo , Tibor Antal , Peter Szabo , Michel Droz

In this paper I present a mathematically novel approach to the Prisoner's Dilemma. I do so by first defining recursively a distinct action type, what I call 'universalizing', that I add to the original prisoner's dilemma. Such a modified…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2015-10-05 Paul Studtmann

This paper presents research comparing the effects of different environments on the outcome of an extended Prisoner's Dilemma, in which agents have the option to abstain from playing the game. We consider three different pure strategies:…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Marcos Cardinot , Maud Gibbons , Colm O'Riordan , Josephine Griffith