The Maker-Breaker Rado game on a random set of integers
Abstract
Given an integer-valued matrix of dimension and an integer-valued vector of dimension , the Maker-Breaker -game on a set of integers is the game where Maker and Breaker take turns claiming previously unclaimed integers from , and Maker's aim is to obtain a solution to the system , whereas Breaker's aim is to prevent this. When is a random subset of where each number is included with probability independently of all others, we determine the threshold probability for when the game is Maker or Breaker's win, for a large class of matrices and vectors. This class includes but is not limited to all pairs for which corresponds to a single linear equation. The Maker's win statement also extends to a much wider class of matrices which include those which satisfy Rado's partition theorem.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.03793,
title = {The Maker-Breaker Rado game on a random set of integers},
author = {Robert Hancock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03793},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
25 pages, 2 figures. Author accepted manuscript. Paper to appear in SIDMA