Two-Person Zero-Sum Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Differential Games

Linear Quadratic Zero-Sum Two-Person Differential Games

As in optimal control theory, linear quadratic (LQ) differential games (DG) can be solved, even in high dimension, via a Riccati equation. However, contrary to the control case, existence of the solution of the Riccati equation is not necessary for the existence of a closed-loop saddle point. One may “survive” a particular, non generic, type of conjugate point. An important application of LQDG’...

Two-person Zero-sum Linear Quadratic Stochastic Differential Games by a Hilbert Space Method

An open-loop two-person zero-sum linear quadratic (LQ for short) stochastic differential game is considered. The controls for both players are allowed to appear in both the drift and diffusion of the state equation, the weighting matrices in the payoff/cost functional are not assumed to be definite/nonsingular, and the cross-terms between two controls are allowed to appear. A forward-backward s...

Zero-Sum Two Person Games

Two-Person Zero-Sum Stochastic Games with Semicontinuous Payoff

Consider a two-person zero-sum stochastic game with Borel state space S, compact metric action sets A, B and law of motion q such that the integral under q of every bounded Borel measurable function depends measurably on the initial state s and continuously on the actions (a,b) of the players. Suppose the payoff is a bounded function f of the infinite history of states and actions such that f i...

A note on two-person zero-sum communicating stochastic games

For undiscounted two-person zero-sum communicating stochastic games with finite state and action spaces, a solution procedure is proposed that exploits the communication property, i.e., working with irreducible games over restricted strategy spaces. The proposed procedure gives the value of the communicating game with an arbitrarily small error when the value is independent of the initial state.