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Usually, mathematical objects have highly parallel interpretations. In this paper, we consider them as sequential constructors of other objects. In particular, we prove that every reflexive directed graph can be interpreted as a program…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-27 Serge Burckel

Infinitely repeated games can support cooperative outcomes that are not equilibria in the one-shot game. The idea is to make sure that any gains from deviating will be offset by retaliation in future rounds. However, this model of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ratip Emin Berker , Vincent Conitzer

Absolute combinatorial game theory was recently developed as a unifying tool for constructive/local game comparison (Larsson et al. 2018). The theory concerns {\em parental universes} of combinatorial games; standard closure properties are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 U. Larsson , R. J. Nowakowski , C. P. Santos

Spoiler-Duplicator games are used in finite model theory to examine the expressive power of logics. Their strategies have recently been reformulated as coKleisli maps of game comonads over relational structures, providing new results in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yoàv Montacute , Glynn Winskel

In repeated games, players choose actions concurrently at each step. We consider a parameterized setting of repeated games in which the players form a population of an arbitrary size. Their utility functions encode a reachability objective.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Nathalie Bertrand , Patricia Bouyer , Luc Lapointe , Corto Mascle

A central theme in extremal combinatorics is the study of the maximum number of edges in an $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph) with matching number at most $s$ (the Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture) or with pairwise intersection at least $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Peter Frankl , Jiaxi Nie

The parallel chip-firing game is a periodic automaton on graphs in which vertices "fire" chips to their neighbors. In 1989, Bitar conjectured that the period of a parallel chip-firing game with n vertices is at most n. Though this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Tian-Yi Jiang

Probabilistic concurrent/distributed strategies have so far not been investigated thoroughly in the context of imperfect information, where the Player has only partial knowledge of the moves made by the Opponent. In a situation where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Sacha Huriot-Tattegrain , Glynn Winskel

The number of quantifiers needed to express first-order properties is captured by two-player combinatorial games called multi-structural (MS) games. We play these games on linear orders and strings, and introduce a technique we call…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Marco Carmosino , Ronald Fagin , Neil Immerman , Phokion Kolaitis , Jonathan Lenchner , Rik Sengupta , Ryan Williams

We show that under some general conditions the finite memory determinacy of a class of two-player win/lose games played on finite graphs implies the existence of a Nash equilibrium built from finite memory strategies for the corresponding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly

We investigate games played between Maker and Breaker on an infinite complete graph whose vertices are coloured with colours from a given set, each colour appearing infinitely often. The players alternately claim edges, Makers aim being to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Nathan Bowler , Marit Emde , Florian Gut

Graph pattern matching is a routine process for a wide variety of applications such as social network analysis. It is typically defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism which is NP-Complete. To lower its complexity, many extensions of graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Houari Mahfoud

We show that under some general conditions the finite memory determinacy of a class of two-player win/lose games played on finite graphs implies the existence of a Nash equilibrium built from finite memory strategies for the corresponding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly

This paper is a sequel of arXiv:2109.06394. In this paper, we consider a kind of inverse problem of multipliers. The problem is to count number of isospectral correspondences, correspondences which has the same combination of multipliers.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Rin Gotou

Multigraph matching is a recent variant of the graph matching problem. In this framework, the optimization procedure considers several graphs and enforces the consistency of the matches along the graphs. This constraint can be formalized as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 François-Xavier Dupé , Rohit Yadav , Guillaume Auzias , S. Takerkart

We describe, study, and experiment with an algorithm for finding all solutions of systems of polynomial equations using homotopy continuation and monodromy. This algorithm follows a framework developed in previous work and can operate in…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Nathan Bliss , Timothy Duff , Anton Leykin , Jeff Sommars

A fundamental problem in pattern avoidance is describing the asymptotic behavior of the extremal function and its generalizations. We prove an equivalence between the asymptotics of the graph extremal function for a class of bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-09 William Zhang

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ let $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ be the maximum number of edges of a $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraph $H$ which contains no copy of $F$. Determining or estimating $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ is a classical and central problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Christian Reiher

Our starting point is the observation that if graphs in a class C have low descriptive complexity in first order logic, then the isomorphism problem for C is solvable by a fast parallel algorithm (essentially, by a simple combinatorial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Grohe , Oleg Verbitsky

Extremal Combinatorics is among the most active topics in Discrete Mathematics, dealing with problems that are often motivated by questions in other areas, including Theoretical Computer Science and Information Theory. This paper contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Noga Alon