Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2020
We characterize the determinacy of
$F_\sigma $
games of length
$\omega ^2$
in terms of determinacy assertions for short games. Specifically, we show that
$F_\sigma $
games of length
$\omega ^2$
are determined if, and only if, there is a transitive model of
${\mathsf {KP}}+{\mathsf {AD}}$
containing
$\mathbb {R}$
and reflecting
$\Pi _1$
facts about the next admissible set.
As a consequence, one obtains that, over the base theory
${\mathsf {KP}} + {\mathsf {DC}} + ``\mathbb {R}$
exists,” determinacy for
$F_\sigma $
games of length
$\omega ^2$
is stronger than
${\mathsf {AD}}$
, but weaker than
${\mathsf {AD}} + \Sigma _1$
-separation.