Decomposition of Games: Some Strategic Considerations

Orthogonal direct-sum decompositions of finite games into potential, harmonic and nonstrategic components exist in the literature. In this paper we study the issue of decomposing games that are strategically equivalent from a game-theoretical point of view, for instance games obtained via transformations such as duplications of strategies or positive affine mappings of the payoffs. We show the need to define classes of decompositions to achieve commutativity of game transformations and decompositions.

Markov-Kakutani Theorem on Hyperspace of a Banach Space

Suppose $X$ is a Banach space and $K$ is a compact convex subset of $X$. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a commutative family of continuous affine mappings of $K$ into $K$. It follows from Markov-Kakutani Theorem that $\mathcal{F}$ has a common fixed point in $K$. Suppose now $(CC(X), h)$ is the corresponding hyperspace of $X$ containing all compact, convex subsets of $X$ endowed with Hausdorff metric $h$. We shall prove the above version of Markov-Kakutani Theorem is valid on the hyperspace $(CC(X), h)$.

ASYMPTOTIC ORDER OF THE GEOMETRIC MEAN ERROR FOR SELF-AFFINE MEASURES ON BEDFORD–MCMULLEN CARPETS

Let [Formula: see text] be a Bedford–McMullen carpet associated with a set of affine mappings [Formula: see text] and let [Formula: see text] be the self-affine measure associated with [Formula: see text] and a probability vector [Formula: see text]. We study the asymptotics of the geometric mean error in the quantization for [Formula: see text]. Let [Formula: see text] be the Hausdorff dimension for [Formula: see text]. Assuming a separation condition for [Formula: see text], we prove that the [Formula: see text]th geometric error for [Formula: see text] is of the same order as [Formula: see text].

On Fixed Point Property under Lipschitz and Uniform Embeddings

We first present a generalization of ω⁎-Gâteaux differentiability theorems of Lipschitz mappings from open sets to those closed convex sets admitting nonsupport points and then show that every nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a Banach space has the fixed point property for isometries if it Lipschitz embeds into a super reflexive space. With the application of Baudier-Lancien-Schlumprecht’s theorem, we finally show that every nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a Banach space has the fixed point property for continuous affine mappings if it uniformly embeds into the Tsirelson space T⁎.

AN EXTENSION OF PENROSE’S INEQUALITY ON GENERALIZED INVERSES TO THE SCHATTEN p-CLASSES

Let B(H) be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on a complex separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space H. In this paper we minimize the Schatten Cp-norm of suitable affine mappings from B(H) to Cp, using convex and differential analysis (Gâteaux derivative) as well as input from operator theory. The mappings considered generalize Penrose’s inequality which asserts that if A+ and B+ denote the Moore-Penrose inverses of the matrices A and B, respectively, then ||AXB − C||2 ≥ ||AA+CB+B − C||2, with A+CB+ being the unique minimizer of minimal ||:||2 norm. The main results obtained characterize the best Cp-approximant of the operator AXB.