Asymptotic analysis of linear feedback Nash equilibria in nonzero-sum linear–quadratic differential games

Asymptotic analysis of linear feedback Nash equilibria in nonzero-sum linear–quadratic differential games

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Article ID: iaor20001693
Country: United States
Volume: 101
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 693
End Page Number: 722
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Journal: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Authors: , ,
Keywords: Nash theory and methods
Abstract:

In this paper, we discuss nonzero-sum linear–quadratic differential games. For this kind of games, the Nash equilibria for different kinds of information structures were first studied by Starr and Ho. Most of the literature on the topic of nonzero-sum linear–quadratic differential games is concerned with games of fixed, finite duration; i.e., games are studied over a finite time horizon t(f). In this paper, we study the behavior of feedback Nash equilibria for t(f) tending to infinity. In the case of memoryless perfect-state information, we study the so-called feedback Nash equilibrium. Contrary to the open-loop case, we note that the coupled Riccati equations for the feedback Nash equilibrium are inherently nonlinear. Therefore, we limit the dynamic analysis to the scalar case. For the special case that all parameters are scaler, a detailed dynamical analysis is given for the quadratic system of coupled Riccati equations. We show that the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the Riccati equations depends strongly on the specified terminal values. Finally, we show that, although the feedback Nash equilibrium over any fixed finite horizon is generically unique, there can exist several different feedbck Nash equilibria in stationary strategies for the infinite horizon problem, even when we restrict our attention to Nash equilibria that are stable in the dynamical sense.

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