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Restricted Power - Computational Complexity Results for Strategic Defense Games

Authors Ronald de Haan , Petra Wolf

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  • Theory of computation → Problems, reductions and completeness
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  • Computational complexity
  • generalized games
  • metatheorems

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Abstract

We study the game Greedy Spiders, a two-player strategic defense game, on planar graphs and show PSPACE-completeness for the problem of deciding whether one player has a winning strategy for a given instance of the game. We also generalize our results in metatheorems, which consider a large set of strategic defense games. We achieve more detailed complexity results by restricting the possible strategies of one of the players, which leads us to Sigma^p_2- and Pi^p_2-hardness results.

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Ronald de Haan and Petra Wolf. Restricted Power - Computational Complexity Results for Strategic Defense Games. In 9th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 100, pp. 17:1-17:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.17

Author Details

Ronald de Haan
  • Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Petra Wolf
  • Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut, University of Tübingen, Germany

Funding

Ronald de Haan is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project J4047.

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