English

Revisiting Dice Relabeling using Cyclotomic Polynomials

Combinatorics 2024-12-10 v2

Abstract

We continue the exploration of a question of dice relabeling posed by Gallian and Rusin: Given nn dice, each labeled 1 through mm, how many ways are there to relabel the dice without changing the frequencies of the possible sums? We answer this question in the case where n=2n = 2 and mm is a product of three prime numbers. We also explore more general questions. We find a method for decomposing two mm-sided dice into two dice of different sizes and give some preliminary results on relabeling two dice of different sizes. Finally, we refine a result of the aforementioned authors in the case where m is a prime power.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.10331,
  title  = {Revisiting Dice Relabeling using Cyclotomic Polynomials},
  author = {Yikai Chao and Josh Gabel and Carlye Larson and George David Nasr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10331},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

To appear to Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications. Section 1 renamed; examples added to sections 4/5/6 demonstrating main results; notation updated

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:17:20.441Z