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We present a general way of defining various reduction games on \omega\ which "represent" corresponding topologically defined classes of functions. In particular, we will show how to construct games for piecewise defined functions, for…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Luca Motto Ros

In this manuscript, we propose a structural condition on non-separable Hamiltonians, which we term displacement monotonicity condition, to study second order mean field games master equations. A rate of dissipation of a bilinear form is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Wilfrid Gangbo , Alpár R. Mészáros , Chenchen Mou , Jianfeng Zhang

We investigate the complexity of finding a winning strategy for the mis\`ere version of three games played on graphs : two variants of the game $\text{NimG}$, introduced by Stockmann in 2004 and the game $\text{Vertex Geography}$ on both…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Gabriel Renault , Simon Schmidt

We provide some examples showing how game-theoretic arguments can be used in computability theory and algorithmic information theory: unique numbering theorem (Friedberg), the gap between conditional complexity and total conditional…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Andrej Muchnik , Alexander Shen , Mikhail Vyugin

Given two finite sets of integers $S\subseteq\NNN\setminus\{0\}$ and $D\subseteq\NNN\setminus\{0,1\}$,the impartial combinatorial game $\IMARK(S,D)$ is played on a heap of tokens. From a heap of $n$ tokens, each player can moveeither to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Eric Sopena

We investigate the Sprague-Grundy sequences for two normal-play impartial games based on arithmetic functions, first described by Iannucci and Larsson in \cite{sum}. In each game, the set of positions is N (natural numbers). In saliquant,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Paul Ellis , Jason Shi , Thotsaporn Aek Thanatipanonda , Andrew Tu

In 1973 Fraenkel discovered interesting sequences which split the positive integers. These sequences became famous, because of a related unsolved conjecture. Here we construct combinatorial games, with `playable' rulesets, with these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Aviezri S. Fraenkel , Urban Larsson

The swing lemma, due to G. Gr\"atzer for slim semimodular lattices and extended by G. Cz\'edli and G. Gr\"atzer for all planar semimodular lattices, describes the congruence generated by a prime interval in an efficient way. Here we present…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Gábor Czédli , Géza Makay

Mean-payoff games are important quantitative models for open reactive systems. They have been widely studied as games of full observation. In this paper we investigate the algorithmic properties of several sub-classes of mean-payoff games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Paul Hunter , Arno Pauly , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin

Dynamic noncooperative game theory is a field of mathematics and economics in which a lot of research is being carried out at present featuring a great number of applications in many different areas of economics and management science like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Philipp Hungerländer

Mean field games were introduced independently by J-M. Lasry and P-L. Lions, and by M. Huang, R.P. Malham\'e and P. E. Caines, in order to bring a new approach to optimization problems with a large number of interacting agents. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-13 Denis Ullmo , Igor Swiecicki , Thierry Gobron

Main papers on quantum games are written by physicists for physicists, and the inevitable exploitation of physics jargon may create difficulties for mathematicians or economists. Our goal here is to make clear the physical content and to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Vassili Kolokoltsov

Examples of games between two partners with mixed strategies, calculated by the use of the probability amplitude are given. The first game is described by the quantum formalism of spin one half system for which two noncommuting observables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. A. Grib , A. Yu. Khrennikov , K. Starkov

We study the $\star$-operator (Larsson et al. 2011) of impartial vector subtraction games (Golomb 1965). Here we extend the notion to the mis\`ere-play convention, and prove convergence and other properties; notably more structure is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Matthieu Dufour , Silvia Heubach , Urban Larsson

Subtraction games are a class of impartial combinatorial games whose positions correspond to nonnegative integers and whose moves correspond to subtracting one of a fixed set of numbers from the current position. Though they are easy to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Nathan Fox

We propose a numerical method for stationary Mean Field Games defined on a network. In this framework a correct approximation of the transition conditions at the vertices plays a crucial role. We prove existence, uniqueness and convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi

We introduce quantitative reductions, a novel technique for structuring the space of quantitative games and solving them that does not rely on a reduction to qualitative games. We show that such reductions exhibit the same desirable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Alexander Weinert

Game-theoretic probability uses the structure of gambles to define a concept like probability, but which is more flexible and robust. We show that results in game-theoretic probability can be thought of as minimax theorems for specific…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Rafael Frongillo

We consider two-player partial-observation stochastic games on finite-state graphs where player 1 has partial observation and player 2 has perfect observation. The winning condition we study are \omega-regular conditions specified as parity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Sumit Nain , Moshe Y. Vardi

We modify Wythoff's game by allowing an additional move, which we call a "split", and show how the $P$-positions are coded by the Tribonacci word. We analyze the table of letter positions of arbitrary $k$-bonacci words and find a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Robbert Fokkink , Dan Rust