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Coding strategies and their compatible plays

Statement

In ZF, on the full natural-number game tree, the strategies of either fixed player are in bijection with N=NN. For each fixed strategy its compatible infinite plays are also in bijection with N.

Facts & Assumptions

[F1]

Gale–Stewart games and strategies defines strategies on all positions of the player's parity and compatible plays.

[F2]

Cantor and Baire sequence spaces and coordinate codings gives explicit natural-number codes for finite words.

Proof

Given: One of the two players on N<ω; every natural is legal at every position.

1.1

Order finite positions by s+i<ss(i), and within each finite stratum by length and then lexicographically. A stratum is finite because its lengths and entries are bounded by the stratum index. Every position has finitely many predecessors. Restricting to the given parity leaves infinitely many positions (constant-zero words of arbitrarily large permitted length), hence gives a bijective enumeration e:NP. For a strategy σ put a(n)=σ(e(n)). Conversely define σ(e(n))=a(n) for any aN. These formulas recover every value in either composition. Legality imposes no further condition on the table, by F1.

F1F2
2.1

Given a fixed σ and bN, construct x by length recursion: at the player's turns append σ(xm), and at the opponent's kth turn append b(k). All moves are legal. The resulting x is compatible with σ by its defining equations. Its opponent subsequence is exactly b, proving injectivity. Conversely, for any compatible x, take its opponent subsequence b; induction on length shows the reconstruction equals x, using compatibility at the player's turns. Thus the construction is surjective too. This works for I, whose initial move is prescribed, and II, whose initial opponent coordinate is free. QED.

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