Fluctuation and Noise Letters

QUANTUM GAME WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION

Yong‐Jian Han, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Guang‐Can Guo

Published Dec 1, 2002• 3 citations

Abstract

Quantum game is an interesting field and many scientists have done a lot of innovative work in it. We give a quantum model about incomplete information. In this model we find whether the pure-strategy Bayes-Nash equilibrium exists or not is strongly dependent on the entanglement of the initial state. We also find the player Bob can always find an initial state and a pure-strategy Bayes-Nash equilibrium to get more payoff than classical game with some parameter.

DOI: 10.1142/s0219477502000853

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