Solvability of 2-player game forms with infinite sets of strategies

Solvability of 2-player game forms with infinite sets of strategies

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Article ID: iaor20032943
Country: United States
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 213
End Page Number: 226
Publication Date: Feb 1995
Journal: Mathematics of Operations Research
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A game form is N-solvable for a class of payoff functions, if for every pair of payoff functions of that class, the associated game in strategic form has a Nash equilibrium. A finite game form is N-solvable (for the universal class of preferences) if and only if it is tight; that is, if its alpha-effectivity function and its beta-effectivity function are equal. We extend this result to various models of two-player game forms with infinite sets of strategies and/or alternatives. This is done by an appropriate definition of tightness relative to the underlying structure (topology, Boolean algebra, sigma-algebra). We apply the current results along with well-known results on the determinacy of games with perfect information to infinitely repeated game forms. We prove that a repeated tight game form is light on Borel sets.

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