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Maximum genus of the Jenga like configurations

History and Overview 2018-09-03 v2 Combinatorics Geometric Topology

Abstract

We treat the boundary of the union of blocks in the Jenga game as a surface with a polyhedral structure and consider its genus. We generalize the game and determine the maximum genus of the generalized game.

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@article{arxiv.1708.01503,
  title  = {Maximum genus of the Jenga like configurations},
  author = {Rika Akiyama and Nozomi Abe and Hajime Fujita and Yukie Inaba and Mari Hataoka and Shiori Ito and Satomi Seita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01503},
  year   = {2018}
}

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12 pages, 14 figures : Title changed, explanation added, final version, accepted in Recreational Mathematics Magazine, 14 pages, 18 figures