Telgarsky's separation conjecture for Banach–Mazur k-tactics

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Let kk be a positive integer. A winning kk-tactic for TWO is a strategy in which TWO's move depends only on the most recent kk moves of ONE. For a topological space (Xk,τk)(X_k,\tau_k), let BM(Xk,τk)BM(X_k,\tau_k) denote the Banach–Mazur game in which the players choose nonempty open sets satisfying

On+1TnOn.O_{n+1}\subseteq T_n\subseteq O_n.

Telgarsky's conjecture. For each positive integer kk there is a topological space (Xk,τk)(X_k,\tau_k) such that TWO does not have a winning kk-tactic, but does have a winning k+1k+1-tactic in the game BM(Xk,τk)BM(X_k,\tau_k). This conjecture asks whether the hierarchy of finite-memory tactics in the Banach–Mazur game is strict at every level. The paper notes that known examples do not settle the conjecture; in particular, its results eliminate one candidate example by showing that TWO has a winning 22-tactic there.

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Tomek Bartoszynski, Winfried Just and Marion Scheepers, “Covering games and the Banach-Mazur game: k-tactics”, arXiv:math/9207203 (1992).

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