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Construction of a Strong Nash Equilibrium in a Class of Infinite Nonzero-Sum Games
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. 2019. Vol. 305. P. 140–149.
Pankratova Y., Petrosyan L.
In our previous papers (2002, 2017), we derived conditions for the existence of a strong Nash equilibrium in multistage nonzero-sum games under additional constraints on the possible deviations of coalitions from their agreed-upon strategies. These constraints allowed only one-time simultaneous deviations of all the players in a coalition. However, it is clear that in real-world problems the deviations of different members of a coalition may occur at different times (at different stages of the game), which makes the punishment strategy approach proposed by the authors earlier inapplicable in the general case. The fundamental difficulty is that in the general case the players who must punish the deviating coalition know neither the members of this coalition nor the times when each player performs the deviation. In this paper, we propose a new punishment strategy, which does not require the full information about the deviating coalition but uses only the fact of deviation of at least one player of the coalition. Of course, this punishment strategy can be realized only under some additional constraints on stage games. Under these additional constraints, it was proved that the punishment of the deviating coalition can be effectively realized. As a result, the existence of a strong Nash equilibrium in the game was established.
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study of geodesic flows in negative curvature surface by Anosov and Sinai.
Not every closed manifold admits an Anosov flow for well-known reasons:
the fundamental group of a 3-manifold M admitting an Anosov flow must
have exponential growth, and M must be universally covered by R3. Nevertheless,
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In this paper the structural stability of generic families of vector fields of the PC-HC class on the two-dimensional sphere is proved. A classification of these families up to moderate equivalence in neighborhoods of their large bifurcation supports is presented, based on such invariants as the configuration and the characteristic set. The realization lemma is proved. ...
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Aleksandra L. Grinikh, , in: Contributions to Game Theory and Management, Vol. XVVol. 15.: St. Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State University, 2022. Ch. 7 P. 60–80.
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Smirnov S. N., Aequationes Mathematicae 2019 Vol. 93 No. 2 P. 445–449
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