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We study the long-term behavior of the fictitious play process in repeated extensive-form games of imperfect information with perfect recall. Each player maintains incorrect beliefs that the moves at all information sets, except the one at…

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We offer an alternative viewpoint on Dyson's original paper regarding the application of Brownian motion to random matrix theory (RMT). In particular we show how one may use the same approach in order to study the stochastic motion in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Christopher H. Joyner , Uzy Smilansky

Magnetic nanoparticles are useful biological probes as well as therapeutic agents. There have been several approaches used to model nanoparticle magnetization dynamics for both Brownian as well as N\'eel rotation. The magnetizations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Daniel B. Reeves , John B. Weaver

We report constructing quantum games directly from a system of Bell's inequalities using Arthur Fine's analysis published in early 1980s. This analysis showed that such a system of inequalities forms a set of both necessary and sufficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Azhar Iqbal , Derek Abbott

We consider a collective version of Parrondo's games with probabilities parametrized by rho in (0,1) in which a fraction phi in (0,1] of an infinite number of players collectively choose and individually play at each turn the game that…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-23 S. N. Ethier , Jiyeon Lee

The formulation of Mean Field Games (MFG) typically requires continuous differentiability of the Hamiltonian in order to determine the advective term in the Kolmogorov--Fokker--Planck equation for the density of players. However, in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

Experimental data suggest that the Earth short time dynamics is related to stochastic fluctuation of its shape. As a first approach to this problem, we derive a toy-model for the motion of a rotating ellipsoid in the framework of stochastic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Etienne Behar , Jacky Cresson , Frédéric Pierret

We evaluated the performance of the classical and spectral finite element method in the simulation of elastodynamic problems. We used as a quality measure their ability to capture the actual dispersive behavior of the material. Four…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Nicolás Guarín-Zapata , Juan Gomez

This paper proves the existence and uniqueness results (in the sense of maximally defined regularity) as well as the stability analysis for the solutions to a class of nonlocal fully-nonlinear parabolic systems, where the nonlocality stems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Qian Lei , Chi Seng Pun

The Sato-Crutchfield equations are studied analytically and numerically. The Sato-Crutchfield formulation is corresponding to losing memory. Then Sato-Crutchfield formulation is applied for some different types of games including hawk-dove,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Ahmed , A. S. Hegazi , A. S. Elgazzar

We investigate infinite games on finite graphs where the information flow is perturbed by nondeterministic signalling delays. It is known that such perturbations make synthesis problems virtually unsolvable, in the general case. On the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Dietmar Berwanger , Marie van den Bogaard

If the parameters of the original Parrondo games $A$ and $B$ are allowed to be arbitrary, subject to a fairness constraint, and if the two (fair) games $A$ and $B$ are played in an arbitrary periodic sequence, then the rate of profit can…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-13 S. N. Ethier , Jiyeon Lee

We study the extent to which it is possible to approximate the optimal value of a Unique Games instance in Fixed-Point Logic with Counting (FPC). Formally, we prove lower bounds against the accuracy of FPC-interpretations that map Unique…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jamie Tucker-Foltz

This paper is concerned with a non-zero sum differential game problem of an anticipated forward-backward stochastic differential delayed equation under partial information. We establish a necessary maximum principle and sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Yi Zhuang

Starting with a microscopic (individual-based) Brownian dynamics model of charged particles (ions), its macroscopic description is derived as a system of partial differential equations that govern the evolution of ion concentrations in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Jinyuan Zhang , Radek Erban

Many biological processes and objects can be described by fractals. The paper uses a new type of objects - blinking fractals - that are not covered by traditional theories considering dynamics of self-similarity processes. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-15 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

In these lecture notes, we explore the mathematical preliminaries and foundational concepts that connect stochastic processes with partial differential equations. We begin by investigating Brownian motion, which serves as a model for random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Helder Rojas

This paper introduces a card game called "Quark Matter Card Games," inspired by the creativity of a high school student, Csaba T\"or\"ok, and developed in collaboration with physicist Tam\'as Cs\"org\H{o}. The game utilizes a deck of 66…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-01-22 Ana Uzelac

In this paper, we delve into the fascinating realm of fractal calculus applied to fractal sets and fractal curves. Our study includes an exploration of the method analogues of the separable method and the integrating factor technique for…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Alireza Khalili Golmankhaneh , Donatella Bongiorno

The probability that the frequency of a particular trait will eventually become unity, the so-called fixation probability, is a central issue in the study of population evolution. Its computation, once we are given a stochastic finite…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-22 Fabio A. C. C. Chalub , Max O. Souza