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Solving Infinite Games in the Baire Space

Computer Science and Game Theory 2023-06-22 v4 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Infinite games (in the form of Gale-Stewart games) are studied where a play is a sequence of natural numbers chosen by two players in alternation, the winning condition being a subset of the Baire space ωω\omega^\omega. We consider such games defined by a natural kind of parity automata over the alphabet N\mathbb{N}, called N\mathbb{N}-MSO-automata, where transitions are specified by monadic second-order formulas over the successor structure of the natural numbers. We show that the classical B\"uchi-Landweber Theorem (for finite-state games in the Cantor space 2ω2^\omega) holds again for the present games: A game defined by a deterministic parity N\mathbb{N}-MSO-automaton is determined, the winner can be computed, and an N\mathbb{N}-MSO-transducer realizing a winning strategy for the winner can be constructed.

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@article{arxiv.2111.10881,
  title  = {Solving Infinite Games in the Baire Space},
  author = {Benedikt Brütsch and Wolfgang Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10881},
  year   = {2023}
}

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