The complexity of uniform Nash equilibria and related regular subgraph problems

  • Authors:
  • Vincenzo Bonifaci;Ugo Di Iorio;Luigi Laura

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università dellAquila, Monteluco di Roio, 67040 LAquila, Italy and Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Ario ...;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We investigate the complexity of finding Nash equilibria in which the strategy of each player is uniform on its support set. We show that, even for a restricted class of win-lose bimatrix games, deciding the existence of such uniform equilibria is an NP-complete problem. Our proof is graph-theoretical. Motivated by this result, we also give NP-completeness results for the problems of finding regular induced subgraphs of large size or regularity, which can be of independent interest.