Permutations of counters on a table
Combinatorics
2024-03-01 v2
Abstract
We consider a game in which a blindfolded player attempts to set counters lying on the vertices of a rotating regular -gon table simultaneously to . When the counters count we simplify the argument of Bar Yehuda, Etzion, and Moran (1993) showing that the player can win if and only if , , or for some prime and . We broadly generalize the result to the setting where the counters can be permuted by any element of a subset of the symmetric group , with the original formulation corresponding to (rotations of the table).
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@article{arxiv.2112.04965,
title = {Permutations of counters on a table},
author = {Samuel Korsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04965},
year = {2024}
}
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7 pages