Nash certainty equivalence in large population stochastic dynamic games: Connections with the physics of interacting particle systems

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4921-4926

  Huang, Minyi ^a   Malhamé, Roland P ^b   Caines, Peter E ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

INTERACTING PARTICLE SYSTEMS; NASH CERTAINTY EQUIVALENCE;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 34249105008     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.377683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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