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A special balancing game, Victor Grinberg's question

Combinatorics 2024-12-12 v1

Abstract

In a vector balancing game, on step kk player 1 chooses a unit vector vkv_k and player 2 chooses a sign εk{1,1}\varepsilon_k\in \{-1,1\}, and the position after nn steps is zn=1nεkvkz_n=\sum_1^n\varepsilon_k v_k. Player 1's target is to make zn\|z_n\| large and player 2's target is to make it small. We consider a special case of this game.

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@article{arxiv.2412.08238,
  title  = {A special balancing game, Victor Grinberg's question},
  author = {Imre Bárány},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08238},
  year   = {2024}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:30:44.282Z