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Monday, February 08, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online Event

Logic Seminar

Games, their values, and Baire class 1 functions
Márton Elekes, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

We consider interesting descriptive set-theoretic problems emerging from theoretical economics. First, we investigate a certain two-player game coming from gambling theory. Then, as a by-product, we obtain a novel game that characterises the Baire class 1 functions. We mention how games can be used to define new natural ranks on the Baire class 1 functions. Finally, we determine the exact complexity of the so-called value of the above game, which turns out to be a less well-known class, namely analytic-inductive.

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