Selective games on binary relations (Q491801)

The authors consider games associated to topological properties. They introduce a unified approach, based on dominating families in binary relations, for the study of a certain kind of topological properties. The topological properties analyzed are those that can be defined in terms of selection principles and the games associated to them. It is shown that this general framework allows to obtain a number of results on the preservation of such properties in product spaces whenever the second player has a winning strategy in the associated game played on one of the coordinate spaces. The new setting introduced by the authors actually subsumes and clarifies several isolated theorems about topological games.