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Nash equilibria via duality and homological selection

Arnab Basu, Samik Basu and Mahan M J
Journal Name
Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences
Journal Publication
others
Publication Year
2014
Journal Publications Functional Area
Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Publication Date
Vol. 124, Issue 4, Nov 2014, Pg: 581-602
Abstract

Given a multifunction from X to the k-fold symmetric product Sym k (X), we use the Dold-Thom theorem to establish a homological selection theorem. This is used to establish existence of Nash equilibria. Cost functions in problems concerning the existence of Nash equilibria are traditionally multilinear in the mixed strategies. The main aim of this paper is to relax the hypothesis of multilinearity. We use basic intersection theory, Poincaré duality in addition to the Dold-Thom theorem.

Nash equilibria via duality and homological selection

Author(s) Name: Arnab Basu, Samik Basu and Mahan M J
Journal Name: Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences
Volume: Vol. 124, Issue 4, Nov 2014, Pg: 581-602
Year of Publication: 2014
Abstract:

Given a multifunction from X to the k-fold symmetric product Sym k (X), we use the Dold-Thom theorem to establish a homological selection theorem. This is used to establish existence of Nash equilibria. Cost functions in problems concerning the existence of Nash equilibria are traditionally multilinear in the mixed strategies. The main aim of this paper is to relax the hypothesis of multilinearity. We use basic intersection theory, Poincaré duality in addition to the Dold-Thom theorem.