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The random strategy in Maker-Breaker graph minor games

Combinatorics 2019-07-11 v1

Abstract

In a (1:b)(1:b) biased Maker-Breaker game, how good a strategy is for a player can be measured by the bias range for which its rival can win, choosing an appropriate counterstrategy. Bednarska and {\L}uczak proved that, in the HH-subgraph game, the uniformly random strategy for Maker is essentially optimal with high probability. Here we prove an analogous result for the HH-graph minor game, and we study for which choices of HH the random strategy is within a factor of 1+o(1)1+o(1) of being optimal.

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@article{arxiv.1907.04804,
  title  = {The random strategy in Maker-Breaker graph minor games},
  author = {Ander Lamaison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.04804},
  year   = {2019}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure

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