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Game theory — strategic interaction and its equilibria — evolutionary stability, repeated games, bargaining, coordination, signalling and conventions — in biology, economics and philosophy (ADR-019).
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| TERM-077 v2 | ordinal potential: of a negotiation over a finite set of options in a window of time, an ordering of the options that every move winning one of its conflicts climbs; it exists exactly when the wins never cycle, which is ordinal extendibility, that some complete ordering agrees with every win, and not observed comparability, since pairs never contested are not compared; and it is fixed only up to a class: every strictly increasing transform of one is one, and on a sparse record several orderings can be | The first level of the hierarchy the review of PR #327 proposed: ordinal coherence. Separated from the Hodge decomposition, which measures cardinal inconsistency and can reverse an ordinal comparison (CLAIM-434, part 4), and from a real-valued currency (CLAIM-436). | Active |
| TERM-078 v3 | persistent potential: an ordinal potential of a negotiation that is the same, up to its class, across successive windows of time, that decides the conflicts it bears on (priority), and towards which the dynamics climb again after a perturbation (resumption); exact when no move outside a perturbation descends it, and then a Lyapunov function of the one-move-at-a-time dynamics, and approximate when some do, and then no Lyapunov function, short of a drift condition that needs a cardinal potential and further assumptions | The second level of the hierarchy the review of PR #327 proposed, which the review called “dynamical ascendancy”. Named for the potential rather than reviving “ascendancy”, which the record retired the same day (TERM-076). It reads Frijda’s three marks of control precedence (THEORY-055) as properties of an ordinal potential over time. | Active |