English

Energy Games over Totally Ordered Groups

Group Theory 2022-08-17 v2 Computer Science and Game Theory Combinatorics

Abstract

Kopczy\'{n}ski (ICALP 2006) conjectured that prefix-independent half-positional winning conditions are closed under finite unions. We refute this conjecture over finite arenas. For that, we introduce a new class of prefix-independent bi-positional winning conditions called energy conditions over totally ordered groups. We give an example of two such conditions whose union is not half-positional. We also conjecture that every prefix-independent bi-positional winning condition coincides with some energy condition over a totally ordered group on periodic sequences.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.04508,
  title  = {Energy Games over Totally Ordered Groups},
  author = {Alexander Kozachinskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04508},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

12 pages. v2 minor changes

R2 v1 2026-06-24T11:11:59.033Z