Solving Infinite Games in the Baire Space
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 . We consider such games defined by a natural kind of parity automata over the alphabet , called -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 ) holds again for the present games: A game defined by a deterministic parity -MSO-automaton is determined, the winner can be computed, and an -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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