On 12/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Kislanko</b> <<a href="mailto:kislanko@airmail.net">kislanko@airmail.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Rob Brown wrote: <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">I'm a
little curious, since you seem to talk about multiple voters switching their
vote together....maybe this really represents a situation where there are
multiple equilibriums, as opposed to no
equilibriums?"</font></font></span> <br></div></span></blockquote>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">On the surface, "multiple equilibria" is kind of an
oxymoron, but the notion may be made precise. </font></span></div></blockquote><div><br>Hmmm, aside from my glaring error in pluralizing "equilibrium" :) .... I'm pretty sure that the concept of equilibrium allows there to be more than one.
<br><br>For instance Nash's famous proof is that there is *at least* one Nash equilibrium for certain well defined types of games:<br><br>In this article they give an example where there are 11 equilibria:<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium</a><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">
Anyway, as we approach the end of another Western calendar
year, may I take this opportunity to wish everyone well. <br></font></span></blockquote></div><br>Likewise, and have a Merry Christmas as well if you celebrate such a thing. :)<br><br>-rob<br>