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A convex programming-based algorithm for mean payoff stochastic games with perfect information
We consider two-person zero-sum stochastic mean payoff games with perfect information, or BWR-games, given by a digraph (Formula presented.), with local rewards (Formula presented.), and three types of positions: black (Formula presented.), white (Formula presented.), and random (Formula presented.) forming a partition of V. It is a long-standing open question whether a polynomial time algorithm for BWR-games exists, even when (Formula presented.). In fact, a pseudo-polynomial algorithm for BWR-games would already imply their polynomial solvability. In this short note, we show that BWR-games can be solved via convex programming in pseudo-polynomial time if the number of random positions is a constant.