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Jamming transitions and avalanches in the game of Dots-and-Boxes

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study the game of Dots-and-Boxes from a statistical point of view. The early game can be treated as a case of Random Sequential Adsorption, with a jamming transition that marks the beginning of the end-game. We derive set of differential equations to make predictions about the state of the lattice at the transition, and thus about the distribution of avalanches in the end-game.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0203418,
  title  = {Jamming transitions and avalanches in the game of Dots-and-Boxes},
  author = {Richard Metzler and Andreas Engel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0203418},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 8 figures, revtex4