Simulation hemi-metrics between infinite-state stochastic games

  • Authors:
  • Jean Goubault-Larrecq

  • Affiliations:
  • LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS, INRIA Futurs, Cachan, France

  • Venue:
  • FOSSACS'08/ETAPS'08 Proceedings of the Theory and practice of software, 11th international conference on Foundations of software science and computational structures
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We investigate simulation hemi-metrics between certain forms of turn-based 21/2-player games played on infinite topological spaces. They have the desirable property of bounding the difference in payoffs obtained by starting from one state or another. All constructions are described as the special case of a unique one, which we call the Hutchinson hemi-metric on various spaces of continuous previsions. We show a directed form of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein theorem, stating that the Hutchinson hemi-metric on spaces of continuous probability valuations coincides with a notion of trans-shipment hemi-metric. We also identify the class of so-called sym-compact spaces as the right class of topological spaces, where the theory works out as nicely as possible.