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Infinitely many absolute universes

Combinatorics 2023-03-10 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Absolute combinatorial game theory was recently developed as a unifying tool for constructive/local game comparison (Larsson et al. 2018). The theory concerns {\em parental universes} of combinatorial games; standard closure properties are satisfied and each pair of non-empty sets of forms of the universe makes a form of the universe. Here we prove that there is an infinite number of absolute mis\`ere universes, by recursively expanding the dicot mis\`ere universe and the dead-ending universe. On the other hand, we prove that normal-play has exactly two absolute universes, namely the full space, and the universe of all-small games.

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@article{arxiv.2303.05198,
  title  = {Infinitely many absolute universes},
  author = {U. Larsson and R. J. Nowakowski and C. P. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.05198},
  year   = {2023}
}

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19 pages

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