Parameterized two-player nash equilibrium

  • Authors:
  • Danny Hermelin;Chien-Chung Huang;Stefan Kratsch;Magnus Wahlström

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany;Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands;Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WG'11 Proceedings of the 37th international conference on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We study the problem of computing Nash equilibria in a two-player normal form (bimatrix) game from the perspective of parameterized complexity. Recent results proved hardness for a number of variants, when parameterized by the support size. We complement those results, by identifying three cases in which the problem becomes fixed-parameter tractable. Our results are based on a graph-theoretic representation of a bimatrix game, and on applying graph-theoretic tools on this representation.