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Combinatorial Game Theory typically studies sequential rulesets with perfect information where two players alternate moves. There are rulesets with {\em entailing moves} that break the alternating play axiom and/or restrict the other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Urban Larsson , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

Classical objectives in two-player zero-sum games played on graphs often deal with limit behaviors of infinite plays: e.g., mean-payoff and total-payoff in the quantitative setting, or parity in the qualitative one (a canonical way to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour

Subtraction games are a classical topic in Combinatorial Game Theory. A result of Golomb~(1966) shows that every subtraction game with a finite move set has an eventually periodic nim-sequence, but the known proof yields only an exponential…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Anjali Bhagat , Urban Larsson , Hikaru Manabe , Takahiro Yamashita

The ordinal sum of t-norms on a bounded lattice has been used to construct other t-norms. However, an ordinal sum of binary operations (not necessarily t-norms) defined on the fixed subintervals of a bounded lattice may not be a t-norm.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Xinxing Wu , Qin Zhang , Xu Zhang , Gül Deniz Çaylı , Lidong Wang

A method for encoding and decoding spectrum shaped binary run-length constrained sequences is described. The binary sequences with predefined range of exponential sums are introduced. On the base of Cover's enumerative scheme, recurrence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-26 Oleg F. Kurmaev

We study the complexity of solving two-player infinite duration games played on a fixed finite graph, where the control of a node is not predetermined but rather assigned randomly. In classic random-turn games, control of each node is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sarvin Bahmani , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Friedrich Slivovsky , Qiyi Tang , Dominik Wojtczak , Shufang Zhu

This paper presents a fast, randomized divide-and-conquer algorithm for the definite generalized eigenvalue problem, which corresponds to pencils $(A,B)$ in which $A$ and $B$ are Hermitian and the Crawford number $\gamma(A,B) =…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-29 James Demmel , Ioana Dumitriu , Ryan Schneider

We study an extension of the well-known red-blue pebble game (RBP) with partial computation steps, inspired by the recent work of Sobczyk. While the original RBP assumes that we need to have all the inputs of an operation in fast memory at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Pál András Papp , Aleksandros Sobczyk , A. N. Yzelman

We introduce an algebra model to study higher order sum rules for orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. We build the relation between the algebra model and sum rules, and prove an equivalent expression on the algebra side for the sum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Jun Yan

We show that a cooperative game may be decomposed into a sum of component games, one for each player, using the combinatorial Hodge decomposition on a graph. This decomposition is shown to satisfy certain efficiency, null-player, symmetry,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Ari Stern , Alexander Tettenhorst

Magic squares have been an enthralling topic in mathematics for centuries. They are formed by filling in all the cells of a square matrix with the numbers starting from one so that the sum of all rows, columns, and diagonals is the same.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Grasha Jacob , A. Murugan

Two new techniques are introduced into the theory of the domination game. The cutting lemma bounds the game domination number of a partially dominated graph with the game domination number of suitably modified partially dominated graph. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Paul Dorbec , Michael A. Henning , Sandi Klavžar , Gašper Košmrlj

The Robinson-Goforth topology of swaps in adjoining payoffs elegantly arranges 2x2 ordinal games in accordance with important properties including symmetry, number of dominant strategies and Nash Equilibria, and alignment of interests.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Bryan Bruns

We show that the formulas for the sum rules for the eigenvalues of inhomogeneous systems that we have obtained in two recent papers are incomplete when the system contains a zero mode. We prove that there are finite contributions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Paolo Amore

We introduce CUT, the class of 2-player partition games. These are NIM type games, played on a finite number of heaps of beans. The rules are given by a set of positive integers, which specifies the number of allowed splits a player can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Antoine Dailly , Eric Duchene , Urban Larsson , Gabrielle Paris

The classic model of computable randomness considers martingales that take real or rational values. Recent work by Bienvenu et al. (2012) and Teutsch (2014) shows that fundamental features of the classic model change when the martingales…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Ron Peretz

The tiling problem has been a famous problem that has appeared in many Mathematics problems. Many of its solutions are rooted in high-level Mathematics. Thus we hope to tackle this problem using more elementary Mathematics concepts. In this…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Le Viet Hung , Tan Yiming , Huang Keyi , Jin Qingyang

The semiring of discrete dynamical systems is a simple algebraic model for modularity in deterministic systems. The objects of the semiring are finite transformations (viewed as directed graphs and regarded up to isomorphism), the sum of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Maximilien Gadouleau , Marianne Johnson

In this paper we deal with the problem of existence of a smooth solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs (HJBI for short) system of equations associated with nonzero-sum stochastic differential games. We consider the problem in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Said Hamadene , Paola Mannucci

This paper is devoted to a systematic study of a class of binary trees encoding the structure of rational numbers both from arithmetic and dynamical point of view. The paper is divided into two parts. The first one is a critical review of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-05-16 Claudio Bonanno , Stefano Isola