The complexity of recursion theoretic games

We show that some natural games introduced by Lachlan in 1970 as a model of recursion theoretic constructions are undecidable, contrary to what was previously conjectured. Several consequences are pointed out; for instance, the set of all -sentences that are uniformly valid in the lattice of recursively enumerable sets is undecidable. Furthermore we show that these games are equivalent to natural subclasses of effectively presented Borel games.