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Robust Multidimensional Mean-Payoff Games are Undecidable

Logic in Computer Science 2014-10-22 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Mean-payoff games play a central role in quantitative synthesis and verification. In a single-dimensional game a weight is assigned to every transition and the objective of the protagonist is to assure a non-negative limit-average weight. In the multidimensional setting, a weight vector is assigned to every transition and the objective of the protagonist is to satisfy a boolean condition over the limit-average weight of each dimension, e.g., \LimAvg(x1)0\LimAvg(x2)0\LimAvg(x3)0\LimAvg(x_1) \leq 0 \vee \LimAvg(x_2)\geq 0 \wedge \LimAvg(x_3) \geq 0. We recently proved that when one of the players is restricted to finite-memory strategies then the decidability of determining the winner is inter-reducible with Hilbert's Tenth problem over rationals (a fundamental long-standing open problem). In this work we allow arbitrary (infinite-memory) strategies for both players and we show that the problem is undecidable.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5703,
  title  = {Robust Multidimensional Mean-Payoff Games are Undecidable},
  author = {Yaron Velner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5703},
  year   = {2014}
}
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