Reducibility among equilibrium problems

  • Authors:
  • Paul W. Goldberg;Christos H. Papadimitriou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Warwick, U.K.;University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the thirty-eighth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We address the fundamental question of whether the Nash equilibria of a game can be computed in polynomial time. We describe certain efficient reductions between this problem for normal form games with a fixed number of players and graphical games with fixed degree. Our main result is that the problem of solving a game for any constant number of players, is reducible to solving a 4-player game.