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We study an impartial game introduced by Anderson and Harary. The game is played by two players who alternately choose previously-unselected elements of a finite group. The first player who builds a generating set from the jointly-selected…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Bret J. Benesh , Dana C. Ernst , Nandor Sieben

A combinatorial game is a two-player game without hidden information or chance elements. The disjunctive sum $G + H$ of games $G$ and $H$ is the game in which $G$ and $H$ are played in parallel, and a player makes a move on exactly one of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Kengo Hashimoto

A subset of the vertex set of a graph is geodetically convex if it contains every vertex on any shortest path between two elements of the set. The convex hull of a set of vertices is the smallest convex set containing the set. We study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Bret J. Benesh , Dana C. Ernst , Marie Meyer , Sarah Salmon , Nandor Sieben

In the present article, the main attention is given to fractal sets whose elements have certain restrictions on using digits or combinations of digits in own nega-P-representation. Topological, metric, and fractal properties of images of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Symon Serbenyuk

A move in the game of nim consists of taking any positive number of tokens from a single pile. Suppose we add the class of moves of taking a nonnegative number of tokens jointly from all the piles. We give a complete answer to the question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Uri Blass , Aviezri S. Fraenkel , Romina Guelman

We introduce Row Impartial Terminus (RIT), an impartial combinatorial game played on integer partitions. We show that any position in RIT can be uniquely decomposed into a core and a remnant. Our central result is that the Conway pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Eric Gottlieb , Dawood Khatana , Matjaž Krnc , Peter Muršič , Ismael Qureshi

We apply the Sprague-Grundy Theorem to LCTR, a new impartial game on partitions in which players take turns removing either the Left Column or the Top Row of the corresponding Young diagram. We establish that the Sprague-Grundy value of any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Eric Gottlieb , Jelena Ilić , Matjaž Krnc

We study a game where two players take turns selecting points of a convex geometry until the convex closure of the jointly selected points contains all the points of a given winning set. The winner of the game is the last player able to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Stephanie McCoy , Nándor Sieben

We study a variant of 3-pile Nim in which a move consists of taking tokens from one pile and, instead of removing then, topping up on a smaller pile provided that the destination pile does not have more tokens then the source pile after the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Nhan Bao Ho

The classical game of {\sc Nim} can be naturally extended and played on an arbitrary hypergraph $\cH \subseteq 2^V \setminus \{\emptyset\}$ whose vertices $V = \{1, \ldots, n\}$ correspond to piles of stones. By one move a player chooses an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Endre Boros , Vladimir Gurvich , Levi Kitrossky , Kazuhisa Makino

The game of nim, with its simple rules, its elegant solution and its historical importance is the quintessence of a combinatorial game, which is why it led to so many generalizations and modifications. We present a modification with a new…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Eric Duchêne , Matthieu Dufour , Silvia Heubach , Urban Larsson

Subtraction games is a class of impartial combinatorial games, They with finite subtraction sets are known to have periodic nim-sequences. So people try to find the regular of the games. But for specific of Sprague-Grundy Theory, it is too…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Zhihui Qin , Guanglei He

Coloring games are combinatorial games where the players alternate painting uncolored vertices of a graph one of $k > 0$ colors. Each different ruleset specifies that game's coloring constraints. This paper investigates six impartial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Gabriel Beaulieu , Kyle Burke , Eric Duchêne

We analyze a two-player game in which players take turns avoiding the selection of certain points within a convex geometry. The objective is to prevent the convex closure of all chosen points from encompassing a predefined set. The first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Seomgeun Shim

Let A be a finite subset of the naturals and let n be a natural. Let NIM(A;n) be the two player game in which players alternate removing $a\in A$ stones from a pile with $n$ stones; the first player who cannot move loses. This game has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Douglas Chen , William Gasarch

A finite impartial game is a two-player game in which the players take turns making moves and the game ends after finitely many moves. In this paper, we study a class of finite impartial games introduced by H.~Lenstra, which we call coin…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Masao Ishikawa , Toyokazu Ohmoto , Hiroyuki Tagawa , Yoshiki Takayama

A subset of the vertex set of a graph is geodetically convex if it contains every vertex on any shortest path between two elements of the subset. The convex hull of a set of vertices is the smallest convex set containing the set. We study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Bret J. Benesh , Dana C. Ernst , Marie Meyer , Sarah K. Salmon , Nandor Sieben

The separation dimension of a graph $G$, written $\pi(G)$, is the minimum number of linear orderings of $V(G)$ such that every two nonincident edges are "separated" in some ordering, meaning that both endpoints of one edge appear before…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Sarah J. Loeb , Douglas B. West

Self-similar sets with open set condition, the linear objects of fractal geometry, have been considered mainly for crystallographic data. Here we introduce new symmetry classes in the plane, based on rotation by irrational angles. Examples…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Christoph Bandt , Dmitry Mekhontsev

We construct meta-intransitive systems of independent random variables of any finite order from basic tuple of random variables which generalize intransitive dice. Under this construction, the equality of some linear functional is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Alexey V. Lebedev