The Variable Hierarchy for the Games mu-Calculus

dc.creatorBelkhir, Walid
dc.creatorSantocanale, Luigi
dc.date2007-10-12
dc.date2008-03-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:26:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:26:18Z
dc.descriptionParity games are combinatorial representations of closed Boolean mu-terms. By adding to them draw positions, they have been organized by Arnold and one of the authors into a mu-calculus. As done by Berwanger et al. for the propositional modal mu-calculus, it is possible to classify parity games into levels of a hierarchy according to the number of fixed-point variables. We ask whether this hierarchy collapses w.r.t. the standard interpretation of the games mu-calculus into the class of all complete lattices. We answer this question negatively by providing, for each n >= 1, a parity game Gn with these properties: it unravels to a mu-term built up with n fixed-point variables, it is semantically equivalent to no game with strictly less than n-2 fixed-point variables.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2419
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2419
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/156704
dc.subjectLogic in Computer Science
dc.subjectComputer Science and Game Theory
dc.subjectLogic
dc.titleThe Variable Hierarchy for the Games mu-Calculus
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