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A Course in Stochastic Game Theory

By (author) Eilon Solan

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Stochastic games have an element of chance: the state of the next round is determined probabilistically depending upon players' actions and the current state. Successful players need to balance the need for short-term payoffs while ensuring future opportunities remain high. The various techniques needed to analyze these often highly non-trivial games are a showcase of attractive mathematics, including methods from probability, differential equations, algebra, and combinatorics. This book presents a course on the theory of stochastic games going from the basics through to topics of modern research, focusing on conceptual clarity over complete generality. Each of its chapters introduces a new mathematical tool – including contracting mappings, semi-algebraic sets, infinite orbits, and Ramsey's theorem, among others – before discussing the game-theoretic results they can be used to obtain. The author assumes no more than a basic undergraduate curriculum and illustrates the theory with numerous examples and exercises, with solutions available online.

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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 26 May 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 280
Dimensions | 228 x 151 x 16mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 430g
ISBN | 978-1-0090-1479-3
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BISAC | mathematics / game theory


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