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The traditional mathematical model for an impartial combinatorial game is defined recursively as a set of the options of the game, where the options are games themselves. We propose a model called gamegraph, together with its generalization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Bojan Bašić , Paul Ellis , Dana C. Ernst , Danijela Popović , Nándor Sieben

Total variant of well known graph coloring game is considered. We determine exact values of total game chromatic number for some classes of graphs and show show the strategie for first player to win the game. We also show relation between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Tomasz Bartnicki , Zofia Miechowicz

We prove a recent conjecture of Duch\^ene and Rigo, stating that every complementary pair of homogeneous Beatty sequences represents the solution to an \emph{invariant} impartial game. Here invariance means that each available move in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-25 Urban Larsson , Peter Hegarty , Aviezri S. Fraenkel

There has recently been work by multiple groups in extracting the properties associated with cardinal invariants of the continuum and translating these properties into similar analogous combinatorial properties of computational oracles.…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Iván Ongay-Valverde , Paul Tveite

We introduce a variant of the classic poker game blackjack -- the continuous blackjack. We study the Nash Equilibrium as well as the case where players deviate from it. We then pivot to the study of a large class of adaptive strategies and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Mu Zhao

The additivity spectrum ADD(I) of an ideal I is the set of all regular cardinals kappa such that there is an increasing chain {A_alpha:alpha<kappa\} in the ideal I such that the union of the chain is not in I. We investigate which set A of…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-06-10 Lajos Soukup

Quantitative measures of randomness in games are useful for game design and have implications for gambling law. We treat the outcome of a game as a random variable and derive a closed-form expression and estimator for the variance in the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2020-09-11 Alex Cloud , Eric Laber

Number games play a central role in alternating normal play combinatorial game theory due to their real-number-like properties (Conway 1976). Here we undertake a critical re-examination: we begin with integer and dyadic games and identify…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Prem Kant , Urban Larsson

We show how two techniques from statistical physics can be adapted to solve a variant of the notorious Unique Games problem, potentially opening new avenues towards the Unique Games Conjecture. The variant, which we call Count Unique Games,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Matthew Coulson , Ewan Davies , Alexandra Kolla , Viresh Patel , Guus Regts

The main purpose of the paper is the proof of a cardinal inequality for a space with points $G_\delta$, obtained with the help of a long version of the Menger game. This result improves a similar one of Scheepers and Tall.

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Leandro F. Aurichi , Angelo Bella

Motivated by the success of domination games and by a variation of the coloring game called the indicated coloring game, we introduce a version of domination games called the indicated domination game. It is played on an arbitrary graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Boštjan Brešar , Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Douglas F. Rall , Zsolt Tuza

We consider the general model of zero-sum repeated games (or stochastic games with signals), and assume that one of the players is fully informed and controls the transitions of the state variable. We prove the existence of the uniform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-04-20 Jérôme Renault

Infinite games (in the form of Gale-Stewart games) are studied where a play is a sequence of natural numbers chosen by two players in alternation, the winning condition being a subset of the Baire space $\omega^\omega$. We consider such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Benedikt Brütsch , Wolfgang Thomas

We investigate forms of filter extension properties in the two-cardinal setting involving filters on $P_\kappa(\lambda)$. We generalize the filter games introduced by Holy and Schlicht in \cite{HolySchlicht:HierarchyRamseyLikeCardinals} to…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Tom Benhamou , Victoria Gitman

In an earlier experiment, participants played a perfect information game against a computer, which was programmed to deviate often from its backward induction strategy right at the beginning of the game. Participants knew that in each game,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Sujata Ghosh , Aviad Heifetz , Rineke Verbrugge , Harmen de Weerd

Duch\^ene and Rigo introduced the notion of invariance for take-away games on heaps. Roughly speaking, these are games whose rulesets do not depend on the position. Given a sequence $S$ of positive tuples of integers, the question of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Eric Duchêne , Aline Parreau , Michel Rigo

The convexification numerical method with the rigorously established global convergence property is constructed for a problem for the Mean Field Games System of the second order. This is the problem of the retrospective analysis of a game…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

Relying on recent generalizations of the Fra\"iss\'e theory to a broader category-theoretic context, we study the class of abstract finite games played between two players and show the existence of an infinitetly countable game which is…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Matheus Duzi , Paul Szeptycki , Walter Tholen

We investigate a family of relational systems arising from interval partitions of $\omega$, inspired by Vojt\'a\v{s}'s characterization of the bounding and dominating numbers. By varying the underlying asymptotic quantifiers and interval…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Miguel A. Cardona , Adam Marton

We study generalized games defined over Banach spaces using variational analysis. To reformulate generalized games as quasi-variational inequality problems, we will first form a suitable principal operator and study some significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Asrifa Sultana , Shivani Valecha