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Fast strategies in Maker-Breaker games played on random boards

Combinatorics 2012-03-16 v1

Abstract

In this paper we analyze classical Maker-Breaker games played on the edge set of a sparse random board G\gnpG\sim \gnp. We consider the Hamiltonicity game, the perfect matching game and the kk-connectivity game. We prove that for p(n)polylog(n)/np(n)\geq \text{polylog}(n)/n, the board G\gnpG\sim \gnp is typically such that Maker can win these games asymptotically as fast as possible, i.e. within n+o(n)n+o(n), n/2+o(n)n/2+o(n) and kn/2+o(n)kn/2+o(n) moves respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3444,
  title  = {Fast strategies in Maker-Breaker games played on random boards},
  author = {Dennis Clemens and Asaf Ferber and Michael Krivelevich and Anita Liebenau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3444},
  year   = {2012}
}