Abstract: | One presents the fundamental results of the theory of noncooperative differential games: necessary and sufficient equilibrium conditions, existence theorems, properties of equilibrium solutions, numerical methods. One indicates applications to concrete problems in economics, the mechanics of controlled motions, and to strategic games.Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Matematicheskii Analiz, Vol. 15, pp. 199–266, 1977.The authors are grateful to É. M. Vaisbord, A. F. Koaonenko, V. S. Molostvov, V. P. Patsyukov, V. A. Plotnikov, V. V. Podinovskii, R. A. Polyak, and R. T. Yanushevskii for the problems in Sec. 11 and for the remarks which have been taken into account in the final editing of the survey. |