Game theory is a huge area of mathematical (and economical) research. We restrict ourselves mainly to two person zero-sum games, in which you make a decision and your opponent makes a decision (no cooperation allowed!), and your winnings equal your opponents loss. The main result is the so-called minimax theorem. Essentially, game theory is about playing against a (possibly) better player and e...

Perturbative expansion in the nonperturbative confining QCD background is formulated. The properly renormalized α S (R) is shown to be finite at large distances, with the string tension playing the role of an infrared regulator. The infra–red renormalons are shown to be absent in the new perturbation series.

We consider the Stag Hunt in terms of Maynard Smith’s famous Haystack model. In the Stag Hunt, contrary to the Prisoner’s Dilemma, there is a cooperative equilibrium besides the equilibrium where every player defects. This implies that in the Haystack model, where a population is partitioned into groups, groups playing the cooperative equilibrium tend to grow faster than those at the noncoopera...

Game theory is one of the possible ways to study information warfare with mathematical models. This paper presents four example games which illustrate the different requirements for an effective playing strategy in information warfare. These games study, how a bold playing strategy can lead to domination, how a mixed playing strategy can reduce domination, how it can be useful to play a dominat...

John Rahn, “The Swerve and the Flow” An historical dialog between philosophies of Being and those of Becoming also plays out in the history of music theory. This paper argues that artistic endeavor is bound up with Becoming and the Lucretian Swerve. Music theory has most often been essentialist, focusing on the frame and not the swerve. This is justifiable in compositional theory, but any analy...