# Good-for-games ω-Pushdown Automata

@article{Lehtinen2020GoodforgamesA,
title={Good-for-games $\omega$-Pushdown Automata},
author={Karoliina Lehtinen and Martin Zimmermann},
journal={Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science},
year={2020}
}
• Published 13 January 2020
• Computer Science
• Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
We introduce good-for-games ω-pushdown automata (ω-GFG-PDA). These are automata whose nondeterminism can be resolved based on the run constructed thus far. Good-for-gameness enables automata to be composed with games, trees, and other automata, applications which otherwise require deterministic automata. Our main results are that ω-GFG-PDA are more expressive than deterministic ω-pushdown automata and that solving infinite games with winning conditions specified by ω-GFG-PDA is EXPTIME-complete…
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