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The Category of Node-And-Choice Forms for Extensive-Form Games

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It would be useful to have a category of extensive-form games whose isomorphisms specify equivalences between games. Toward this goal, Streufert (2016) introduced the category of node-and-choice preforms, where a "preform" is a rooted tree together with choices and information sets. This paper takes another step: It introduces the category of node-and-choice forms, where a "form" is a preform augmented with players. In addition, it derives some consequences of the category's morphisms and provides a characterization of the category's isomorphisms.

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  • Peter A. Streufert, 2016. "The Category of Node-And-Choice Forms for Extensive-Form Games," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 20165, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
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    1. Peter A. Streufert, 2018. "The Category of Node-and-Choice Forms, with Subcategories for Choice-Sequence Forms and Choice-Set Forms," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 20186, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.

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