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Balanced player arrangement in rotating court games

Combinatorics 2025-09-30 v1

Abstract

Consider a game involving a team with nn players, kk of which wear shirts marked with a letter AA, while the others with a letter BB, and such that only ss people play, while the remaining nsn-s wait outside the court. At certain times the players rotate, and one player enters the court while another one leaves, each player keeping the same neighbors at all times. The house rules want at least tt players wearing a shirt with the letter AA in the court at each rotation. We show that this can be achieved if and only if ntksnt\leq ks. We use classical work on balanced words dating back to Christoffel and Smith.

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@article{arxiv.2509.23884,
  title  = {Balanced player arrangement in rotating court games},
  author = {Alessandro Danelon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23884},
  year   = {2025}
}

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