Duels with possibly asymmetric goals
We consider a two-player zero-sum-game in a bounded open domain Ω described as follows: at a point x ∈ Ω, Players I and II play an ε-step tug-of-war game with probability α, and with probability β (α + β = 1), a random point in the ball of radius ε centered at x is chosen. Once the game position reaches the boundary, Player II pays Player I the amount given by a fixed payoff function F. We give a detailed proof of the fact that...
We consider a two-player zero-sum-game in a bounded open domain Ω described as follows: at a point x ∈ Ω, Players I and II play an ε-step tug-of-war game with probability α, and with probability β (α + β = 1), a random point in the ball of radius ε centered at x is chosen. Once the game position reaches the boundary, Player II pays Player I the amount given by a fixed payoff function F. We give a detailed proof of the fact that the value functions of this game satisfy the Dynamic Programming Principle...
We consider a two-player zero-sum-game in a bounded open domain Ω described as follows: at a point x ∈ Ω, Players I and II play an ε-step tug-of-war game with probability α, and with probability β (α + β = 1), a random point in the ball of radius ε centered at x is chosen. Once the game position reaches the boundary, Player II pays Player I the amount given by a fixed payoff function F. We give a detailed proof of the fact that...
We survey results related to the problem of the existence of equilibria in some classes of infinitely repeated two-person games of incomplete information on one side, first considered by Aumann, Maschler and Stearns. We generalize this setting to a broader one of principal-agent problems. We also discuss topological results needed, presenting them dually (using cohomology in place of homology) and more systematically than in our earlier papers.
We study a generalization of bimatrix games in which not all pairs of players' pure strategies are admissible. It is shown that under some additional convexity assumptions such games have equilibria of a very simple structure, consisting of two probability distributions with at most two-element supports. Next this result is used to get a theorem about the existence of Nash equilibria in bimatrix games with a possibility of payoffs equal to -∞. The first of these results is a discrete counterpart...
Definimos el campo escalar asociado a un juego bipersonal de suma cero. Estudiamos la existencia y unicidad de puntos estacionarios y obtenemos la forma general de los mismos en caso de unicidad. Se establece que todo punto estacionario es de ensilladura.La importancia del estudio anterior queda reflejada al establecer la equivalencia entre las estrategias óptimas simples de un juego y los puntos estacionarios del campo escalar asociado.El Teorema de Shapley-Snow [2] proporciona un método sistemático...
This paper deals with two-person stochastic games of resource extraction under both the discounted and the mean payoff criterion. Under some concavity and additivity assumptions concerning the payoff and the transition probability function a stationary Nash equilibrium is shown to exist. The proof is based on Schauder-Tychonoff's fixed point theorem, applied to a suitable payoff vector space.
Dans cet article, nous présentons les aspects essentiels de la modélisation du processus décisionnel des joueurs de tennis dans une phase particulière de ce jeu sportif : le service-retour. Notre démarche se focalise sur la représentation des connaissances s'exerçant dans un continuum temporel scindé en micro-cycles et sur la construction de structures permettant d'envisager l'auto-apprentissage des caractéristiques technico-tactiques des joueurs par le système. Elle s'appuie sur la mise en oeuvre...
This paper studies a portfolio optimization problem in a discrete-time Markovian model of a financial market, in which asset price dynamics depends on an external process of economic factors. There are transaction costs with a structure that covers, in particular, the case of fixed plus proportional costs. We prove that there exists a self-financing trading strategy maximizing the average growth rate of the portfolio wealth. We show that this strategy has a Markovian form. Our result is obtained...