Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games

作者: Dan Kovenock , Brian Roberson

DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2585352

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摘要: In this paper, we generalize the General Lotto game (budget constraints satisfied in expectation) and Colonel Blotto hold with probability one) to allow for battlefield valuations that are heterogeneous across battlefields asymmetric players, players have resource constraints. We completely characterize Nash equilibrium generalized version of then show how characterization can be applied identify equilibria game. both games, find there exist sets non-pathological parameter configurations positive Lebesgue measure multiple payoff nonequivalent equilibria.

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