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Possible probability and irreducibility of balanced non-transitive dice

Probability 2020-11-11 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We construct irreducible balanced non-transitive sets of nn-sided dice for any positive integer nn, which was raised in \cite[Question 5.2]{SS17}. One main tool of the construction is to study so-called fair sets of dice. Furthermore, we also study the distribution of the probabilities of balanced non-transitive sets of dice. For a lower bound, we show that the probability could be arbitrarily close to 12\frac{1}{2} and for a upper bound, we construct a balanced non-transitive set of dice whose probability is 12+131532412+19.12.\frac{1}{2} + \frac{13-\sqrt{153}}{24} \approx \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{9.12}.

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@article{arxiv.2006.12866,
  title  = {Possible probability and irreducibility of balanced non-transitive dice},
  author = {Injo Hur and Yeansu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12866},
  year   = {2020}
}