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A Midsummer Knot's Dream

Geometric Topology 2011-09-20 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce playing games on shadows of knots. We demonstrate two novel games, namely, To Knot or Not to Knot and Much Ado about Knotting. We also discuss winning strategies for these games on certain families of knot shadows. Finally, we suggest variations of these games for further study.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1003.4494,
  title  = {A Midsummer Knot's Dream},
  author = {Allison Henrich and Noël MacNaughton and Sneha Narayan and Oliver Pechenik and Robert Silversmith and Jennifer Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.4494},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

11 pages, 8 figures. To appear, College Mathematics Journal.

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