## Combinatorial fairness property in division of goods

Given n agents, and m items where vi(g)≥0 is the value of item g for agent i, does there always exist a partition A1,…,An of the m items into n sets s.t. for all i,j∈{1,…,n}: ∑g∈Aivi(g)≥(∑g∈Ajvi(g))−(min Where if A_j is empty, the min is taken as 0. In essence this is a fairness property where … Read more

## Game theory of writing multiple choice tests

Here is a model which seems pretty close to my experience of writing multiple choice tests. Let’s view the answer $t$ to each question as a binary string in $S:=\{ 0,1 \}^k$, all equally likely. The scantron sheet offers $a$ answers per question, so the instructor must present the student with an $a$-element set $C$ … Read more

## During the game of war, if you could order the cards in your deck of 26, what strategy should you employ? [closed]

Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question During the game of war, if you could order the cards in your deck of 26, what strategy should you … Read more

## What are some interesting examples of cooperative games that can be naturally generalised to a stochastic version of it?

In classical, deterministic cooperative game theory, there are $N$ players that can form $2^{N}$ coalitions. Each of these coalitions is assigned a value by means of the characteristic function $v ( \cdot )$ associated with the particular game, such that $v: 2^{N} \to \mathbb{R}$. The game can be “solved” (i.e. the payoffs can be distributed … Read more

## How to promote a blog?

Math behind might be interesting. Quite recent bloggingg activity might have interesting math model. The point is that bloggers compete for subscribers and at the same time cooperate gaining subscribers from partner’s blogs. Question is about existence of something like J.Nash’s equilibrium strategy which should balance competition/cooperation. Setup: There are inet blogs, each blog has … Read more

## Responses from mathematicians concerning Flash trading [closed]

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## All solutions to a set of integral equations

I would like a better understanding of the set of pairs (f1,f2) of functions [0,1]×[0,1]→[0,1] which satisfy the following conditions: For all y∈[0,1], f1(x,y)≥f1(x′,y)⇔x>x′. For all x∈[0,1], f2(x,y)≥f2(x,y′)⇔y>y′. f1(x,y)+f2(x,y)=1, for all (x,y)∈[0,1]×[0,1] f1(x,y)=f2(y,x) for all (x,y)∈[0,1]×[0,1] Due to monotonicity (Condition 1), the functions f1 and f2 are integrable. Now define p1(x,0)=xf1(x,0)−∫x0f1(t,0)dt, p2(0,y)=yf2(0,y)−∫y0f2(0,t)dt, p1(x,y)=p1(x,0)+xf1(x,y)−∫x0f1(t,y)dt, p2(x,y)=p2(0,y)+yf2(x,y)−∫y0f2(x,t)dt. Then … Read more

## standard auction model

I’m not familiar enough with the auction theory to know where to look, but this seems close to what seems to be known as the “standard auction model”. Say an asset is up for auction.The true value of this asset follows a normal distribution tv∼N(0,η2). All bidders share that prior. On top of that, all … Read more

## Uniqueness of equilibrium from infinite strategies

I took the following game from the Peter Winkler collection (chapter “Games”): Two numbers are chosen independently at random from the uniform distribution on [0,1]. Player A then looks at the numbers. She must decide which one of them to show to player B, who upon seeing it, guesses whether it’s the larger or smaller … Read more

## How many different states of Nash equilibrium?

So there is this quite well known Prisoner’s dilemma where two parties can both defect and cooperate (and get points based on their decisions). In my presently used example I take it that cooperating player always gets 2 points while defecting player gets 3 points against cooperating opponent and 0 points against defecting opponent. So … Read more