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Normal-form games

Players, strategies and payoff functions define a normal-form game.

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    A dominant strategy is at least as good against every opponent choice, with strength depending on the definition.

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    A mixed strategy is a probability distribution over pure strategies.

  • Nash equilibrium

    At equilibrium no player gains by unilateral deviation while others keep their strategies.

  • Probability

    A probability measure assigns nonnegative weights to events, with total weight one and countable additivity on disjoint events.

  • Backward induction

    Reasoning backward from terminal choices solves finite perfect-information games under appropriate preferences.

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