On a Network Generalization of the Minmax Theorem

  • Authors:
  • Constantinos Daskalakis;Christos H. Papadimitriou

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, New England;U.C. Berkeley,

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '09 Proceedings of the 36th Internatilonal Collogquium on Automata, Languages and Programming: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider graphical games in which the edges are zero-sum games between the endpoints/players; the payoff of a player is the sum of the payoffs from each incident edge. Such games are arguably very broad and useful models of networked economic interactions. We give a simple reduction of such games to two-person zero-sum games; as a corollary, a mixed Nash equilibrium can be computed efficiently by solving a linear program and rounding off the results. Our results render polynomially efficient, and simplify considerably, the approach in [3].