Abstract
Players ONE and TWO play the following game: In the nth inning ONE chooses a set On from a prescribed family ℱ of subsets of a space X; TWO responds by choosing an open subset Tn of X. The players must obey the rule that On ⊆ On+1 ⊆ Tn+1 ⊆ Tn for each n. TWO wins if the intersection of TWO's sets is equal to the union of ONE's sets. If ONE has no winning strategy, then each element of ℱ is a Gδ-set. To what extent is the converse true? We show that: (A) For ℱ the collection of countable subsets of X: 1. There are subsets of the real line for which neither player has a winning strategy in this game. 2. The statement "If X is a set of real numbers, then ONE does not have a winning strategy if, and only if, every countable subset of X is a Gδ-set" is independent of the axioms of classical mathematics. 3. There are spaces whose countable subsets are Gδ-sets, and yet ONE has a winning strategy in this game. 4. For a hereditarily Lindelöf space X, TWO has a winning strategy if, and only if, X is countable. (B) For ℱ the collection of Fσ-subsets of a subset X of the real line the determinacy of this game is independent of ZFC.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 41-58 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Fundamenta Mathematicae |
Volume | 153 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1997 |
Keywords
- A-set
- A-set
- A-set, b, d
- Concentrated set
- Game
- Lusin set
- Perfectly meager set
- Q-set
- Rothberger's property c″
- S-set
- Sierpiński set
- Strategy
- λ-set
- σ-set