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Alice and Bob take turns (with Alice playing first) in declaring numbers from the set $[1,2N]$. If a player declares a number that was previously declared, that player looses and the other player wins. If all numbers are declared without…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Uriel Feige

We give conditions for equilibria in the following Voronoi game on the discrete hypercube. Two players position themselves in $\{0,1\}^d$ and each receives payoff equal to the measure (under some probability distribution) of their Voronoi…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-27 A. Nicholas Day , J. Robert Johnson

We consider a four-player game on the discrete hypercube $Q_n = \{0,1\}^n$, where each of the four players has chosen a single vertex of the hypercube. Such a position is called a profile. Imagine there is a voter at every vertex, and each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Stelios Stylianou

Here we present \texttt{electoral\_sim}, an open-source Python framework for simulating and comparing electoral systems across diverse voter preference distributions. The framework represents voters and candidates as points in a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sumit Mukherjee

Let $a$, $b$, and $n$ be integers with $0<a<b<n$. In a certain two-player probabilistic chip-collecting game, Alice tosses a coin to determine whether she collects $a$ chips or $b$ chips. If Alice collects $a$ chips, then Bob collects $b$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Joshua Harrington , Xuwen Hua , Xufei Liu , Alex Nash , Rodrigo Rios , Tony W. H. Wong

Wireless secret sharing is crucial to information security in the era of Internet of Things. One method is to utilize the effect of the randomness of the wireless channel in the data link layer to generate the common secret between two…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Lei Miao , Dingde Jiang

We consider the problem of private computation of approximate Heavy Hitters. Alice and Bob each hold a vector and, in the vector sum, they want to find the B largest values along with their indices. While the exact problem requires linear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin J. Strauss , Xuan Zheng

We help Alice play a certain "convergence game" against Bob and win the prize, which is a constructive solution to a problem by Erd\H{o}s and Graham, posed in their 1980 book on open questions in combinatorial number theory. Namely, after…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Vjekoslav Kovač

We consider distributed elections, where there is a center and $k$ sites. In such distributed elections, each voter has preferences over some set of candidates, and each voter is assigned to exactly one site such that each site is aware…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Arnold Filtser , Nimrod Talmon

Duality games are a way of looking at wave-particle duality. In these games. Alice and Bob together are playing against the House. The House specifies, at random, which of two sub-games Alice and Bob will play. One game, Ways, requires that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Mark Hillery

In a recently introduced coset guessing game, Alice plays against Bob and Charlie, aiming to meet a joint winning condition. Bob and Charlie can only communicate before the game starts to devise a joint strategy. The game we consider begins…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Michael Schleppy , Emina Soljanin , Nicolas Swanson

We introduce the competitive assignment problem, a two-player version of the well-known assignment problem. Given a set of tasks and a set of agents with different efficiencies for different tasks, Alice and Bob take turns picking agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Florian Galliot , Nacim Oijid , Jonas Sénizergues

We formulate two-party policy competition as a two-player non-cooperative game, generalizing Lin et al.'s work (2021). Each party selects a real-valued policy vector as its strategy from a compact subset of Euclidean space, and a voter's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chuang-Chieh Lin , Chi-Jen Lu , Po-An Chen , Chih-Chieh Hung

Consider a game where a refereed a referee chooses (x,y) according to a publicly known distribution P_XY, sends x to Alice, and y to Bob. Without communicating with each other, Alice responds with a value "a" and Bob responds with a value…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-08-07 Thomas Holenstein

Team captains Alice and Bob divide up $2m$ footballers, each reduced to a real-valued score, into two teams of $m$ footballers each. On each turn, one captain plays picker, and the other chooser: the picker names a footballer yet to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Bhargav Narayanan

We present a formalism that captures the process of proving quantum superiority to skeptics as an interactive game between two agents, supervised by a referee. Bob, is sampling from a classical distribution on a quantum device that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Daniel Stilck França , Raul Garcia-Patron

In the planar one-round discrete Voronoi game, two players $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{Q}$ compete over a set $V$ of $n$ voters represented by points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. First, $\mathcal{P}$ places a set $P$ of $k$ points, then $\mathcal{Q}$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Mark de Berg , Geert van Wordragen

We characterize one-dimensional Euclidean preference profiles with a small number of alternatives and voters. In particular, we show the following. 1. Every preference profile with up to two voters is one-dimensional Euclidean if and only…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jiehua Chen , Sven Grottke

Robot game is a two-player vector addition game played on the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^n$. Both players have sets of vectors and in each turn the vector chosen by a player is added to the current configuration vector of the game. One of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Reino Niskanen , Igor Potapov , Julien Reichert

An assembly of $n$ voters needs to decide on $t$ independent binary issues. Each voter has opinions about the issues, given by a $t$-bit vector. Anscombe's paradox shows that a policy following the majority opinion in each issue may not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Andrei Constantinescu , Roger Wattenhofer