Correlated optimin

Mehmet Mars Seven

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Abstract: We extend the optimin notion of Ismail (2025) from mixed strategy profiles to correlated distributions. A correlated distribution is evaluated by the worst expected payoff each player can receive when opponents may either obey their private recommendations or make unilateral recommendation-contingent deviations that are strictly profitable under the posterior induced by the distribution. Correlated optimins are Pareto optimal with respect to this vector of guaranteed payoffs. We show that a correlated optimin exists in every finite game. In addition, for every correlated equilibrium, there exists a correlated optimin such that every player's guaranteed payoff is weakly higher than his or her correlated equilibrium payoff. In two-player zero-sum games, correlated optimin coincides with correlated equilibrium and yields the maximin value. Outside zero-sum games, correlated optimin may strictly improve upon all correlated equilibria. We illustrate this with a simple 2x2 game with a unique correlated and coarse correlated equilibrium, in which there exists a correlated optimin that strictly Pareto dominates the equilibrium payoff.

Date: 2026-05
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