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TR05-115 | 27th September 2005 00:00

The complexity of computing a Nash equilibrium

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TR05-115
Authors: Constantinos Daskalakis, Paul Goldberg, Christos H. Papadimitriou
Publication: 10th October 2005 12:33
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Abstract:

We resolve the question of the complexity of Nash equilibrium by
showing that the problem of computing a Nash equilibrium in a game
with 4 or more players is complete for the complexity class PPAD.
Our proof uses ideas from the recently-established equivalence
between polynomial-time solvability of normal-form games and
graphical games, and shows that these kinds of games can implement
arbitrary members of a PPAD-complete class of Brouwer functions.



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