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Determinacy separations for class games

Logic 2016-07-20 v1

Abstract

We show, assuming weak large cardinals, that in the context of games played in a proper class of moves, clopen determinacy is strictly weaker than open determinacy. The proof amounts to an analysis of a certain level of LL that exists under large cardinal assumptions weaker than an inaccessible. Our argument is sufficiently general to give a family of determinacy separation results applying in any setting where the universal class is sufficiently closed; e.g., in third, seventh, or (ω+2)(\omega+2)th order arithmetic. We also prove bounds on the strength of Borel determinacy for proper class games. These results answer questions of Gitman and Hamkins.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05515,
  title  = {Determinacy separations for class games},
  author = {Sherwood Hachtman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05515},
  year   = {2016}
}
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