All or Nothing Caching Games with Bounded Queries

DOI10.1142/S0219198917500232zbMATH Open1384.90055arXiv1702.00635OpenAlexW2586121220MaRDI QIDQ4608745FDOQ4608745

Authors: Dömötör Pálvölgyi 

Publication date: 28 March 2018

Published in: International Game Theory Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We determine the value of some search games where our goal is to find all of some hidden treasures using queries of bounded size. The answer to a query is either empty, in which case we lose, or a location, which contains a treasure. We prove that if we need to find $d$ treasures at $n$ possible locations with queries of size at most $k$, then our chance of winning is $$ if each treasure is at a different location and $$ if each location might hide several treasures for large enough $n$. Our work builds on some results by Cs'oka who has studied a continuous version of this problem, known as Alpern's Caching Game; we also prove that the value of Alpern's Caching Game is $$ for integer $k$ and large enough $n$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00635

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zbMATH Keywords

search theoryAlpern's caching game

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Search theory (90B40) Applications of game theory (91A80) 2-person games (91A05)

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