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A noncooperative infinite game can be approached by a sequence of discrete games. For each game in the sequence, a Nash solution can be found as well as their limit. This idea and procedure was used before as a theoretical device to prove existence of solutions to games with continuous payoffs and recently even for a class of games with discontinuous ones (Dasgupta and Maskin, 1981). No one, however, used the method for the actual solution of a game. Here, an example demonstrates the method's usefulness in finding a solution to a two-person game on the unit square with discontinuous payoff functions.
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Communicated by Y. C. Ho
The author wishes to thank D. McFadden for very useful discussions. Financial support was provided in part by NSF Grant No. SOC-72-05551A02 to the University of California, Berkeley, California.
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Shilony, Y. The sequence method for finding solutions to infinite games: A first demonstrating example. J Optim Theory Appl 46, 105–117 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00938764
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