From Tirole Book: If a single strategy profile survives iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies, then it is a Nash equilibrium of the game.

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While I am reading Tirole Game Theory Book , I read the following statement

If a single strategy profile survives iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies, then it is a Nash equilibrium of the game.

How can I prove this statement?

I fact, I know that the converse is not true. That is, any Nash-equilibrium profile must put weight only on strategies that are not strictly dominated (or more generally, do not survive iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies), because a player could increase his payoff by replacing a dominated strategy with one that dominates it. [However, Nash equilibria may assign positive probability to weakly dominated strategies]

But I cannot proceed anything for the other side of the statement.

I will be appreciated for all helps. Thank you.