Nash Equilibria in Finite-Horizon Multiagent Concurrent Games

01/03/2021

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by   Senthil Rajasekaran, et al.

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The problem of finding pure strategy Nash equilibria in multiagent concurrent games with finite-horizon temporal goals has received some recent attention. Earlier work solved this problem through the use of Rabin automata. In this work, we take advantage of the finite-horizon nature of the agents' goals and show that checking for and finding pure strategy Nash equilibria can be done using a combination of safety games and lasso testing in Büchi automata. To separate strategic reasoning from temporal reasoning, we model agents' goals by deterministic finite-word automata (DFAs), since finite-horizon logics such as LTLf and LDLf are reasoned about through conversion to equivalent DFAs. This allow us characterize the complexity of the problem as PSPACE complete.