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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.10
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-143874
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/14387/
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Kozachinskiy, Alexander

Continuous Positional Payoffs

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Abstract

What payoffs are positionally determined for deterministic two-player antagonistic games on finite directed graphs? In this paper we study this question for payoffs that are continuous. The main reason why continuous positionally determined payoffs are interesting is that they include the multi-discounted payoffs.
We show that for continuous payoffs positional determinacy is equivalent to a simple property called prefix-monotonicity. We provide three proofs of it, using three major techniques of establishing positional determinacy - inductive technique, fixed point technique and strategy improvement technique. A combination of these approaches provides us with better understanding of the structure of continuous positionally determined payoffs as well as with some algorithmic results.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{kozachinskiy:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.10,
  author =	{Kozachinskiy, Alexander},
  title =	{{Continuous Positional Payoffs}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-203-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{203},
  editor =	{Haddad, Serge and Varacca, Daniele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14387},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-143874},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Games on graphs, positional strategies, continuous payoffs}
}

Keywords: Games on graphs, positional strategies, continuous payoffs
Collection: 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 13.08.2021

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