Title
The duality gap for two-team zero-sum games
Abstract
We consider multiplayer games in which the players fall in two teams of size k, with payoffs equal within, and of opposite sign across, the two teams. In the classical case of k=1, such zero-sum games possess a unique value, independent of order of play. However, this fails for all k>1; we can measure this failure by a duality gap, which quantifies the benefit of being the team to commit last to its strategy. We show that the gap equals 2(1−21−k) for m=2 and 2(1−m−(1−o(1))k) for m>2, with m being the size of the action space of each player. Extensions hold also for different-size teams and players with various-size action spaces.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.geb.2019.03.011
Games and Economic Behavior
Keywords
Field
DocType
C72
Discrete mathematics,Duality gap,Poor coordination,Commit,Minimax theorem,Zero-sum game,Von Neumann architecture,Randomness
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
115
0899-8256
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leonard J. Schulman11328136.88
Umesh V. Vazirani23338610.23