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Equivalences Among Five Game Specifications, Including a New Specification Whose Nodes are Sets of Past Choices

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The current literature formally links "OR forms" (named after Osborne and Rubinstein 1994) with "KS forms" (named after Kuhn and Selten by Kline and Luckraz 2016). It also formally links "simple forms" with "AR forms" (both from Alos-Ferrer and Ritzberger 2016, with the former less prominent than the latter). This paper makes three contributions. First, it introduces a fifth game form whose nodes are sets of past choices. Second, it formally links these new "choice-set forms" with OR forms. Third, it formally links KS forms with simple forms. The result is a formal five-way equivalence which provides game theorists with a broad spectrum of alternative game specifications.

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  • Peter A. Streufert, 2018. "Equivalences Among Five Game Specifications, Including a New Specification Whose Nodes are Sets of Past Choices," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 20183, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
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    1. Peter A. Streufert, 2015. "Choice-Set Forms are Dual to Outcome-Set Forms," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 20153, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
    2. 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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    5. Peter A. Streufert, 2015. "Specifying Nodes as Sets of Choices," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 20151, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
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    1. Streufert, Peter, 2018. "The Category of Node-and-Choice Forms, with Subcategories for Choice-Sequence Forms and Choice-Set Forms," MPRA Paper 90490, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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