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Remarks on sensitive equilibria in stochastic games with additive reward and transition structure

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  • Andrzej Nowak

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A class of stochastic games with additive reward and transition structure is studied. For zero-sum games under some ergodicity assumptions 1-equilibria are shown to exist. They correspond to so-called sensitive optimal policies in dynamic programming. For a class of nonzero-sum stochastic games with nonatomic transitions nonrandomized Nash equilibrium points with respect to the average payoff criterion are also obtained. Included examples show that the results of this paper can not be extented to more general payoff or transition structure. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2006

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  • Andrzej Nowak, 2006. "Remarks on sensitive equilibria in stochastic games with additive reward and transition structure," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 64(3), pages 481-494, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:mathme:v:64:y:2006:i:3:p:481-494
    DOI: 10.1007/s00186-006-0090-4
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