Collapsible Pushdown Parity Games

Christopher H. Broadbent, Arnaud Carayol, Matthew Hague, Andrzej S. Murawski, C.-H. Luke Ong, Olivier Serre · ACM Transactions on Computational Logic · 2021

This article studies a large class of two-player perfect-information turn-based parity games on infinite graphs, namely, those generated by collapsible pushdown automata. The main motivation for studying these games comes from the connections from collapsible pushdown automata and higher-order recursion schemes, both models being equi-expressive for generating infinite trees. Our main result is to establish the decidability of such games and to provide an effective representation of the winning region as well as of a winning strategy. Thus, the results obtained here provide all necessary tools for an in-depth study of logical properties of trees generated by collapsible pushdown automata/recursion schemes.

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