On Winning Conditions of High Borel Complexity in Pushdown Games

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Finkel

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd.) Equipe de Logique Mathématique, U.F.R. de Mathématiques, Université Paris 7, 2 Place Jussieu 75251 Paris cedex 05, France. finkel@logique.jussieu.fr

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In a recent paper [19, 20] Serre has presented some decidable winning conditions Ω $_{A_1▹…▹A_n▹A_{n+1}}$ of arbitrarily high finite Borel complexity for games on finite graphs or on pushdown graphs. We answer in this paper several questions which were raised by Serre in [19,20]. We study classes C$_n$(A), defined in [20], and show that these classes are included in the class of non-ambiguous context free ω-languages. Moreover from the study of a larger class C$_n^λ$(A) we infer that the complements of languages in C$_n$(A) are also non-ambiguous context free ω-languages. We conclude the study of classes C$_n$(A) by showing that they are neither closed under union nor under intersection. We prove also that there exists pushdown games, equipped with winning conditions in the form Ω$_{A_1▹A_2}$, where the winning sets are not deterministic context free languages, giving examples of winning sets which are non-deterministic non-ambiguous context free languages, inherently ambiguous context free languages, or even non context free languages.