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James Atchley

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Schmidt's Game and Vitali Sets

While many types of non-measurable sets are never $(\alpha, \beta)$-winning in the sense of Schmidt's game, we show that this is not the case for certain Vitali sets. Our main theorems show that for certain values of $\alpha, \beta$ one can construct a Vitali set which is $(\alpha, \beta)$-winning, while for other values of $\alpha,\beta$ every Vitali set is $(\alpha,\beta)$-losing. We also investigate the $(\alpha,\beta)$-Schmidt game for various other types of pathological sets, highlighting their differences from Vitali sets.

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Intersection Games and Bernstein Sets

The Banach-Mazur game, Schmidt's game and McMullen's absolute winning game are three quintessential intersection games. We investigate their determinacy on the real line when the target set for either player is a Bernstein set, a non-Lebesgue measurable set whose construction depends on the axiom of choice.

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