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The Generalized Matcher Game

Combinatorics 2019-09-17 v1

Abstract

Recently the matcher game was introduced. In this game, two players create a maximal matching by one player repeatedly choosing a vertex and the other player choosing a K2K_2 containing that vertex. One player tries to minimize the result and the other to maximize the result.In this paper we propose a generalization of this game where K2K_2 is replaced by a general graph FF. We focus here on the case of F=P3F=P_3. We provide some general results and lower bounds for the game, investigate the graphs where the game ends with all vertices taken, and calculate the value for some specific families of graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1909.06825,
  title  = {The Generalized Matcher Game},
  author = {Anna Bachstein and Wayne Goddard and Connor Lehmacher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06825},
  year   = {2019}
}
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