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Value in mixed strategies for zero-sum stochastic differential games without Isaacs condition. (English) Zbl 1296.49034

Summary: In the present work, we consider 2-person zero-sum stochastic differential games with a nonlinear pay-off functional which is defined through a backward stochastic differential equation. Our main objective is to study the problem of the existence of a value without Isaacs condition. Not surprising, this requires a suitable concept of mixed strategies which, to the authors’ best knowledge, was not known in the context of stochastic differential games. For this, we consider nonanticipative strategies with a delay defined through a partition \(\pi\) of the time interval \([0,T]\). The underlying stochastic controls for both players are randomized along \(\pi\) by a hazard which is independent of the governing Brownian motion, and knowing the information available at the left time point \(t_{j-1}\) of the subintervals generated by \(\pi\), the controls of players 1 and 2 are conditionally independent over \([t_{j-1},t_{j})\). It is shown that the associated lower and upper value functions \(W^{\pi}\) and \(U^{\pi}\) converge uniformly on compacts to a function \(V\), the so-called value in mixed strategies, as the mesh of \(\pi\) tends to zero. This function \(V\) is characterized as the unique viscosity solution of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs equation.

MSC:

49N70 Differential games and control
49L25 Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games
49L20 Dynamic programming in optimal control and differential games
91A23 Differential games (aspects of game theory)
91A15 Stochastic games, stochastic differential games
91A05 2-person games
60H10 Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)

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