Restrictions of $m$-Wythoff Nim and $p$-complementary Beatty Sequences
Abstract
Fix a positive integer . The game of \emph{-Wythoff Nim} (A.S. Fraenkel, 1982) is a well-known extension of \emph{Wythoff Nim}, a.k.a 'Corner the Queen'. Its set of -positions may be represented by a pair of increasing sequences of non-negative integers. It is well-known that these sequences are so-called \emph{complementary homogeneous} \emph{Beatty sequences}, that is they satisfy Beatty's theorem. For a positive integer , we generalize the solution of -Wythoff Nim to a pair of \emph{-complementary}---each positive integer occurs exactly times---homogeneous Beatty sequences and , which, for all , satisfies . By the latter property, we show that and are unique among \emph{all} pairs of non-decreasing -complementary sequences. We prove that such pairs can be partitioned into pairs of complementary Beatty sequences. Our main results are that represents the solution to three new '-restrictions' of -Wythoff Nim---of which one has a \emph{blocking maneuver} on the \emph{rook-type} options. C. Kimberling has shown that the solution of Wythoff Nim satisfies the \emph{complementary equation} . We generalize this formula to a certain '-complementary equation' satisfied by our pair and . We also show that one may obtain our new pair of sequences by three so-called \emph{Minimal EXclusive} algorithms. We conclude with an Appendix by Aviezri Fraenkel.
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@article{arxiv.0901.4683,
title = {Restrictions of $m$-Wythoff Nim and $p$-complementary Beatty Sequences},
author = {Urban Larsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4683},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
22 pages, 2 figures, Games of No Chance 4, Appendix by Aviezri Fraenkel