Impartial achievement games for generating generalized dihedral groups
Combinatorics
2018-05-04 v2 Group Theory
Abstract
We study an impartial game introduced by Anderson and Harary. This game is played by two players who alternately choose previously-unselected elements of a finite group. The first player who builds a generating set from the jointly-selected elements wins. We determine the nim-numbers of this game for generalized dihedral groups, which are of the form for a finite abelian group .
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@article{arxiv.1608.00259,
title = {Impartial achievement games for generating generalized dihedral groups},
author = {Bret J. Benesh and Dana C. Ernst and Nandor Sieben},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00259},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
11 pages, 7 figures. Revised in response to comments from referees