Pure strategy solutions in the progressive discrete silent duel with quadratic accuracy symmetry and shooting uniform jitter
A generalized class of the discrete game of timing is solved, where possible shooting moments are uniformly jittered. This is a finite zero-sum game defined on a symmetric lattice of the unit square. The game is a progressive discrete silent duel whose kernel is skew-symmetric, and the duelist having a single bullet shoots with quadratic accuracy. As the duel starts, possible shooting moments become denser by a geometric progression, where every following moment, apart from the duel beginning and end moments, is the partial sum of the respective geometric series. Due to the skew-symmetry, both the duelists have the same optimal strategies and the game optimal value is 0. The $3 \times 3$ duel always has a pure strategy solution, whichever the jitter is. As the duel becomes bigger, an open interval of pure strategy solution non-existence appears. The endpoints of the open interval are irrational. The $4 \times 4$ duel has three jitter intervals, within which it has a pure strategy solution, whose optimal strategies can be only either a jittered middle or three-quarters of the duel time span, and the duel end moment. Bigger duels have two jitter intervals, within which a single pure strategy solution exists, but a jittered middle of the duel time span is never optimal. The $4 \times 4$ duel has two open intervals of the jitter, within which it does not have a pure strategy solution. Bigger duels have just a single open interval of the jitter, where no pure strategy solution exists. The left endpoint of this interval depends on the number of possible shooting moments.
Authors
- Vadim Romanuke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3543-3087)
Institutions
- Polish Naval Academy (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of the University of Craiova Mathematics and Computer Science Series
- Published
- 2025-06-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.52846/ami.v52i1.1920
- Primary Topic
- Game Theory and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00