2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30572Consider a very simple class of (finite) games: after an initial move by nature, each player makes one move. Moreover, the players have common interests: at each node, all the players get the same payoff. We show that the problem of determining whether there exists a joint strategy where each player has an expected payoff of at least r is NP-complete as a function of the number of nodes in the extensive-form representation of the game.To appear, International Journal of Game TheoryComputer Science and Game TheoryComputational ComplexityDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster ComputingD.1.3On the NP-completeness of Finding an Optimal Strategy in Games with Common Payoffstext