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Advances in losing

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We survey recent developments in the theory of impartial combinatorial games in misere play, focusing on how the Sprague-Grundy theory of normal-play impartial games generalizes to misere play via the indistinguishability quotient construction.

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@article{arxiv.math/0603027,
  title  = {Advances in losing},
  author = {Thane E. Plambeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603027},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

To appear in Games of No Chance 3, Cambridge University Press (MSRI series). 28 pages