A 2-Person Game Decomposing 2-Manifolds
Combinatorics
2024-09-04 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
Two players play a game by alternately splitting a surface of a compact -manifold along a simple closed curve that is not null-homotopic and attaching disks to the resulting boundary; the last player who can move wins. Starting from an orientable surface, the -series is according to increasing genus. Starting from a nonorientable surface, the -series is according to increasing genus. Nim addition determines the -values of the remaining compact -manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.2407.00816,
title = {A 2-Person Game Decomposing 2-Manifolds},
author = {David R. Berman and Lee O. Leonard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00816},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
12 pages. To be submitted to the Bulletin of The Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications This version corrects the email: lleonardjr@icloud.com