On (strong) α-favorability of the Wijsman hyperspace

The Banach–Mazur game as well as the strong Choquet game are investigated on the Wijsman hyperspace from the nonempty player's (i.e. α's) perspective. For the strong Choquet game we show that if X is a locally separable metrizable space, then α has a (stationary) winning strategy on X iff it has a (stationary) winning strategy on the Wijsman hyperspace for each compatible metric on X. The analogous result for the Banach–Mazur game does not hold, not even if X is separable, as we show that α may have a (stationary) winning strategy on the Wijsman hyperspace for each compatible metric on X, and not have one on X. We also show that there exists a separable 1st category metric space such that α has a (stationary) winning strategy on its Wijsman hyperspace. This answers a question of Cao and Junnila (2010) [6].