A note on bimatrix game maximal Selten subsets

In this paper, we implement automatic procedures to enumerate all Nash maximal subsets of a bimatrix game and compute their dimensions. We propose a linear programming approach to identify extreme perfect Nash equilibria, enumerate all Selten maximal subsets and compute their dimensions. We present the Eχ-MIPerfect and the EEE-Perfect algorithms which enumerate all extreme perfect Nash equilibria. We finally report and comment computational experiments on randomly generated bimatrix games with different size and density.

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