{"title":"How to Maximize the Total Strength of Survivors in a Battle and Tournament in Gladiator Game Models","authors":"M. A. Khodiakova","doi":"10.1134/S1064562424602725","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1984, Kaminsky, Luks, and Nelson formulated the gladiator game model of two teams with given strengths. Suppose that a team wants to maximize its expected strength at the end of a battle. We consider an optimization problem: how to distribute the team’s strength among its gladiators. In the above we suppose that the teams distribute their strengths at the beginning of a battle. We also consider Nash equilibria when the teams may change gladiators’ strengths before every fight. We consider two cases. In both, the first team wants to maximize its strength. The second team wants to maximize its strength too in the first case or wants to minimize the first team’s strength in the second case.</p>","PeriodicalId":531,"journal":{"name":"Doklady Mathematics","volume":"110 2 supplement","pages":"S452 - S462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Doklady Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1064562424602725","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In 1984, Kaminsky, Luks, and Nelson formulated the gladiator game model of two teams with given strengths. Suppose that a team wants to maximize its expected strength at the end of a battle. We consider an optimization problem: how to distribute the team’s strength among its gladiators. In the above we suppose that the teams distribute their strengths at the beginning of a battle. We also consider Nash equilibria when the teams may change gladiators’ strengths before every fight. We consider two cases. In both, the first team wants to maximize its strength. The second team wants to maximize its strength too in the first case or wants to minimize the first team’s strength in the second case.
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Doklady Mathematics is a journal of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It contains English translations of papers published in Doklady Akademii Nauk (Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences), which was founded in 1933 and is published 36 times a year. Doklady Mathematics includes the materials from the following areas: mathematics, mathematical physics, computer science, control theory, and computers. It publishes brief scientific reports on previously unpublished significant new research in mathematics and its applications. The main contributors to the journal are Members of the RAS, Corresponding Members of the RAS, and scientists from the former Soviet Union and other foreign countries. Among the contributors are the outstanding Russian mathematicians.