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Monotonic Sequence Games

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In a monotonic sequence game, two players alternately choose elements of a sequence from some fixed ordered set. The game ends when the resulting sequence contains either an ascending subsequence of length a or a descending one of length d. We investigate the behaviour of this game when played on finite linear orders or Q and provide some general observations for play on arbitrary ordered sets.

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@article{arxiv.math/0602630,
  title  = {Monotonic Sequence Games},
  author = {M. Albert and R. Aldred and M. Atkinson and C. Handley and D. Holton and D. McCaughan and B. Sagan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602630},
  year   = {2007}
}

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