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Sharp thresholds for half-random games II

Combinatorics 2016-04-01 v2

Abstract

We study biased Maker-Breaker positional games between two players, one of whom is playing randomly against an opponent with an optimal strategy. In this work we focus on the case of Breaker playing randomly and Maker being "clever". The reverse scenario is treated in a separate paper. We determine the sharp threshold bias of classical games played on the edge set of the complete graph KnK_n, such as connectivity, perfect matching, Hamiltonicity, and minimum degree-11. In all of these games, the threshold is equal to the trivial upper bound implied by the number of edges needed for Maker to occupy a winning set. Moreover, we show that the clever Maker can not only win against an asymptotically optimal bias, but can do so very fast, wasting only logarithmically many moves (while the winning set sizes are linear in nn).

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@article{arxiv.1602.04628,
  title  = {Sharp thresholds for half-random games II},
  author = {Jonas Groschwitz and Tibor Szabó},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04628},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This is the second part of our work on this subject, the first part can be found here: arXiv:1507.06688 . Originally, both parts were contained in the same paper. This original version can be found here: arXiv:1507.06688v2

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