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We study a variant of the classical Wythoff's game. The classical form is played with two piles of stones, from which two players take turns to remove stones from one or both piles. When removing stones from both piles, an equal number must…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Kahori Komaki , Ryohei Miyadera , Aoi Murakami

Consider the following game between a random player R and a deterministic player D. There is a pile of n elements at the beginning. The rules for playing are as follows: In each turn of R, if the pile contains exactly m elements, R removes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Yehonatan Fridman

The work we present in this paper initiated the formal study of fractional hedonic games, coalition formation games in which the utility of a player is the average value he ascribes to the members of his coalition. Among other settings,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Haris Aziz , Florian Brandl , Felix Brandt , Paul Harrenstein , Martin Olsen , Dominik Peters

We make a conjecture that characterizes the periods of the nim values in subtraction games with subtraction set of size 3.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Mark Daniel Ward

We introduce the complexity class Quantified Reals ($\text{Q}\mathbb{R}$). Let FOTR be the set of true sentences in the first-order theory of the reals. A language $L$ is in $\text{Q}\mathbb{R}$, if there is a polynomial time reduction from…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lucas Meijer , Arnaud de Mesmay , Tillmann Miltzow , Marcus Schaefer , Jack Stade

We report an algorithm for the partition of a line segment according to a given ratio $\nu$. At each step the length distribution among sets of the partition follows a binomial distribution. We call $k$-set to the set of elements with the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-11-10 A. I. L. de Araújo , R. F. Soares , J. P. de Oliveira , G. Corso

In this paper, we propose to enumerate all different configurations belonging to a specific class of fractals: A binary initial tile is selected and a finite recursive tiling process is engaged to produce auto-similar binary patterns. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Hassan Douzi

In the domination game studied here, Dominator and Staller alternately choose a vertex of a graph $G$ and take it into a set $D$. The number of vertices dominated by the set $D$ must increase in each single turn and the game ends when $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Csilla Bujtás

A maximum sequence $S$ of vertices in a graph $G$, so that every vertex in $S$ has a neighbor which is independent, or is itself independent, from all previous vertices in $S$, is called a Grundy dominating sequence. The Grundy domination…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Kayla Bell , Keith Driscoll , Elliot Krop , Kimber Wolff

We prove three conjectures of Fraenkel and Ho regarding two classes of variants of Wythoff's game. The two classes of variants of Wythoff's game feature restrictions of the diagonal moves. Each conjecture states that the Sprague-Grundy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Madeleine Weinstein

We discussed hierarchies and rescaling rule of the self similar transformations in Ising models, and define a fractal dimension of an ordered cluster, which minimum corresponds to a fixed point of the transformations. By the fractal…

General Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 You-gang Feng

Chocolate bar games are variants of the CHOMP game in which the goal is to leave your opponent with the single bitter part of the chocolate. In this paper, we investigate step chocolate bars whose widths are determined by a fixed function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ryohei Miyadera , Shunsuke Nakamura , Yushi Nakaya

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we study the number of partitions of a positive integer $m$ into at most $n$ parts in a given set $A$. We prove that such a number is bounded by the $n$-th Fibonacci number $F(n)$ for any $m$ and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Steven Benzel , Scott Conner , Nham Ngo , Khang Pham

We continue our studies of burn-off chip-firing games from [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 15 (2013), no. 1, 121-132; MR3040546] and [Australas. J. Combin. 68 (2017), no. 3, 330-345; MR3656659]. The latter article introduced randomness…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 P. Mark Kayll , Dave Perkins

The fragmentation processes of exchangeable partitions have already been studied by several authors. In this paper, we examine rather fragmentation of exchangeable compositions, that means partitions of $\mathbb{N}$ where the order of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anne-Laure Basdevant

The problem of reconstructing a sequence of independent and identically distributed symbols from a set of equal size, consecutive, fragments, as well as a dependent reference sequence, is considered. First, in the regime in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Nir Weinberger , Ilan Shomorony

We relate the Sierpinski triangle and the game of Nim. We begin by defining both a new high-dimensional analog of the Sierpinski triangle and a natural geometric interpretation of the losing positions in Nim, and then, in a new result, show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Kevin Gibbons

We report on a recent conjecture by Gisin on a restriction of physical processes in sets of finite information numbers (FIN) and further analyze the entropic constraint associated with the proposed algorithm. In the course, we provide a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 Theophanes E. Raptis

Consider gambler's ruin with three players, 1, 2, and 3, having initial capitals $A$, $B$, and $C$ units. At each round a pair of players is chosen (uniformly at random) and a fair coin flip is made resulting in the transfer of one unit…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Persi Diaconis , Stewart N. Ethier

We consider the fragmentation process with mass loss and discuss self-similar properties of the arising structure both in time and space, focusing on dimensional analysis. This exhibits a spectrum of mass exponents $\theta$, whose exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. K. Hassan , J. Kurths