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The Complexity of Robot Games on the Integer Line

Logic in Computer Science 2013-08-05 v4 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

In robot games on Z, two players add integers to a counter. Each player has a finite set from which he picks the integer to add, and the objective of the first player is to let the counter reach 0. We present an exponential-time algorithm for deciding the winner of a robot game given the initial counter value, and prove a matching lower bound.

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@article{arxiv.1301.7700,
  title  = {The Complexity of Robot Games on the Integer Line},
  author = {Arjun Arul and Julien Reichert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.7700},
  year   = {2013}
}

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In Proceedings QAPL 2013, arXiv:1306.2413

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