Converging on Common Knowledge

Dominik Klein; Rasmus Kræmmer Rendsvig

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2019/241

Converging on Common Knowledge

Dominik Klein, Rasmus Kræmmer Rendsvig^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Communication

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Abstract

Common knowledge, as is well known, is not attainable in finite time by unreliable communication, thus hindering perfect coordination. Focusing on the coordinated attack problem modeled using dynamic epistemic logic, this paper discusses unreliable communication protocols from a topological perspective and asks "If the generals may communicate indefinitely, will they then *converge* to a state of common knowledge?" We answer by making precise and showing the following: *common knowledge is attainable if, and only if, we do not care about common knowledge*.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight International Joint Conference on Artificial Interlligence (IJCAI-19)
Editors	Sarit Kraus
Number of pages	8
Publication date	Jul 2019
Pages	1741--1748
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-9992411-4-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/241 https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/241
Publication status	Published - Jul 2019

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