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Existence of Equilibrium Strategies in Fuzzy Stochastic Games with Finite Sets of States and Decisions

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Noncooperative discounted stochastic n-person games are considered; the payoffs at each step are represented by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The existence of stationary Nash equilibrium strategies is proved.

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2020, published in Matematicheskie Zametki, 2020, Vol. 107, No. 4, pp. 623–632.

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Shvedov, A.S. Existence of Equilibrium Strategies in Fuzzy Stochastic Games with Finite Sets of States and Decisions. Math Notes 107, 679–686 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434620030347

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