The reduced form of a game

✍ Scribed by Dries Vermeulen; Mathijs Jansen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 611 KB
• Volume: 106
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-2217
• DOI: 10.1016/s0377-2217(97)00198-7

✦ Synopsis

The goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly a short proof of the unicity of the reduced form of a normal form game is provided, using a technique to reduce a game originally introduced by Mertens. Secondly a direct combinatorial-geometric interpretation of the reduced form is described. This description is then used to derive an algorithm for the calculation of the reduced form of a game.