Asymptotic expected number of Nash equilibria of two-player normal form games

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 264-295

  McLennan, Andrew ^a   Berg, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Disordered systems; Nash equilibrium; Normal form games; Random games; Statistical mechanics; Two player games

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644371571     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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