The limit distribution of pure strategy nash equilibria in symmetric bimatrix games

Mathematics of Operations Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 726-733

  Stanford, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimatrix game; Nash equilibria

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LIMIT DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PURE STRATEGY NASH EQUILIBRIA; RANDOM SYMMETRIC BIMATRIX GAME;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 0030204918     PISSN: 0364765X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/moor.21.3.726     Document Type: Article

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