On the Complexity of Stationary Nash Equilibria in Discounted Perfect Information Stochastic Games

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Autori principali: Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt, Nie, Xinhao
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author Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt
Nie, Xinhao
author_facet Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt
Nie, Xinhao
contents We study the problem of computing stationary Nash equilibria in discounted perfect information stochastic games from the viewpoint of computational complexity. For two-player games we prove the problem to be in PPAD, which together with a previous PPAD-hardness result precisely classifies the problem as PPAD-complete. In addition to this we give an improved and simpler PPAD-hardness proof for computing a stationary epsilon-Nash equilibrium. For 3-player games we construct games showing that rational-valued stationary Nash equilibria are not guaranteed to exist, and we use these to prove SqrtSum-hardness of computing a stationary Nash equilibrium in 4-player games.
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spellingShingle On the Complexity of Stationary Nash Equilibria in Discounted Perfect Information Stochastic Games
Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt
Nie, Xinhao
Computer Science and Game Theory
Computational Complexity
We study the problem of computing stationary Nash equilibria in discounted perfect information stochastic games from the viewpoint of computational complexity. For two-player games we prove the problem to be in PPAD, which together with a previous PPAD-hardness result precisely classifies the problem as PPAD-complete. In addition to this we give an improved and simpler PPAD-hardness proof for computing a stationary epsilon-Nash equilibrium. For 3-player games we construct games showing that rational-valued stationary Nash equilibria are not guaranteed to exist, and we use these to prove SqrtSum-hardness of computing a stationary Nash equilibrium in 4-player games.
title On the Complexity of Stationary Nash Equilibria in Discounted Perfect Information Stochastic Games
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Computational Complexity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11550