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Large Supports are Required for Well-Supported Nash Equilibria

Authors Yogesh Anbalagan, Hao Huang, Shachar Lovett, Sergey Norin, Adrian Vetta, Hehui Wu

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Yogesh Anbalagan
Hao Huang
Shachar Lovett
Sergey Norin
Adrian Vetta
Hehui Wu

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Yogesh Anbalagan, Hao Huang, Shachar Lovett, Sergey Norin, Adrian Vetta, and Hehui Wu. Large Supports are Required for Well-Supported Nash Equilibria. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 40, pp. 78-84, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.78

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We prove that for any constant k and any epsilon < 1, there exist bimatrix win-lose games for which every epsilon-WSNE requires supports of cardinality greater than k. To do this, we provide a graph-theoretic characterization of win-lose games that possess epsilon-WSNE with constant cardinality supports. We then apply a result in additive number theory of Haight to construct win-lose games that do not satisfy the requirements of the characterization. These constructions disprove graph theoretic conjectures of Daskalakis, Mehta and Papadimitriou and Myers.

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  • bimatrix games
  • well-supported Nash equilibria

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