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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Is this game determined?
- Message-ID: <ARA.92Jul31035645@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 08:56:45 GMT
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- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Inspired by the Axiom of Determinacy, I cooked up the following class of
- games.
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- Let F be a formula in 1 free variable in the language of Zermelo-Frankel set
- theory. Given F, we play the following game: Player I chooses a set x
- satisfying F(x). If x is empty, then Player I loses. More generally, anyone
- who gets stuck with the empty set loses. If x is not empty, then Player II
- chooses an element y of x. If y is empty, Player II loses, otherwise, Player I
- chooses an element z of y, and so on.
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- By the Foundation Axiom, this game always has to terminate in a finite number
- of plays.
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- Suppose we adopt the axiom: For every F, the game associated to F has a
- winning strategy for one of the players.
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- What conclusions can one draw from this axiom? Is it consistent with ZF?
- How does it compare with the Axiom of Determinacy ?
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- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
-