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In this paper, we introduce some relationships between Nash equilibria, variational equilibria, and dynamical equilibria for noncooperative games.
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Cavazzuti, E., Pappalardo, M. & Passacantando, M. Nash Equilibria, Variational Inequalities, and Dynamical Systems. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 114, 491–506 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016056327692
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