English

Infinite-state games with finitary conditions

Computer Science and Game Theory 2013-04-23 v2

Abstract

We study two-player zero-sum games over infinite-state graphs with boundedness conditions. Our first contribution is about the strategy complexity, i.e the memory required for winning strategies: we prove that over general infinite-state graphs, memoryless strategies are sufficient for finitary B\"uchi games, and finite-memory suffices for finitary parity games. We then study pushdown boundedness games, with two contributions. First we prove a collapse result for pushdown omega B games, implying the decidability of solving these games. Second we consider pushdown games with finitary parity along with stack boundedness conditions, and show that solving these games is EXPTIME-complete.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1301.2661,
  title  = {Infinite-state games with finitary conditions},
  author = {Krishnendu Chatterjee and Nathanaël Fijalkow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2661},
  year   = {2013}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-21T23:08:14.111Z