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Chip firing on hypergraphs
A (finite) hypergraph is a pair $(V, \mathcal{E})$ where $V$ is a finite set of vertices and $\mathcal{E}\subseteq\mathcal{P}(V)$ with each $E\in\mathcal{E}$ having at least two elements; a ...
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Complexity of games with graph classes
Let $\mathfrak{G}$ be the class of all finite directed and undirected graphs. Let $A,B\subseteq \mathfrak{G} $, $A$ and $B$ are closed under graph isomorphisms, and $A \cap B = \varnothing$. Consider ...
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pursuit-evasion based on Schroeder's upper bound for graphs of genus $g$
I am following Schroeder's work on pursuit-evasion games on graphs (often called "cops and robbers"). In his 2001 publication ("The copnumber of a graph is bounded by $\lfloor 3/2 {\ \...
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Suggestions for two-choice game played in ladder graph
I was just working on counting all the possible Nash Equilibrium solutions for a two-choice game played on a ladder graph (I got my results and all that for a generic number of players).
And I was ...
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Is following function a metric on the set of isomorphism classes of graphs with countably many vertices?
Suppose $\Gamma_1(V_1, E_1)$ and $\Gamma_2(V_2, E_2)$ are simple graphs with countably many vertices. And suppose $A_1$ and $A_2$ are initially empty sets. Suppose two players play the following game: ...
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Is this representation of Go (game) irreducible?
This post is freely inspired by the basic rules of Go (game), usually played on a $19 \times 19$ grid graph.
Consider the $\mathbb{Z}^2$ grid. We can assign to each vertex a state "black" ($b$), "...
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Is there a well-posed definition of game on a graph? Or a well defined category of games on graphs?
All I ever found about this were natural language rules à la Asimov's three laws of robotics. The questions are straightforward questions:
1) Is there a well-posed mathematical definition of game on ...
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Does knight behave like a king in his infinite odyssey?
The Knight's Tour is a well-known mathematical chess problem. There is an extensive amount of research concerning this question in two/higher dimensional finite boards. Here, I would like to tackle ...
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What is a chess piece mathematically?
Historically, the current "standard" set of chess pieces wasn't the only existing alternative or even the standard one. For instance, the famous Al-Suli's Diamond Problem (which remained ...
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Two-player independent set game
Let $G = (V, E)$ be a finite graph, and $S \subseteq V$ initially be an empty set. Alice and Bob play a game, making moves in turns starting with Alice. A move consists of choosing a vertex $v \in V \...
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A game: building a bounded degree graph
Given positive integers $n$ and $d\leqslant n-1$. Two players build a graph, starting with $n$ vertices and no edges. On each turn, a player joins two yet not joined vertices by an edge. It is ...
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Duration and critical groups order in sandpile models and chip firing games
The famous chip firing game (which is closely related to sandpile models) goes like this:
Place chips at the vertices of a graph. REPEATEDLY: If a vertex $v$ of
degree $d_{v}$ has at least $d_{v}...
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Determine or estimate the number of maximal triangle-free graphs on $n$ vertices
Among the collections of the open problems of Paul Erdős on the website of
Professor Fan Chung, there is one called "number of triangle-free graphs".
http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~erdosproblems/erdos/...
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Nash Equilibrium in general graphical game
Any one has any ideas about how to compute the Nash Equilibrium in general graphical game? Especially, when the graph structure is not a tree.
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A Ramsey avoidance game
Consider the following game: Given $K_n$ the complete graph on $n$ vertices, two players take turns coloring its edges. Initially no edges are colored. At his turn a player can color a prevoiusly not ...
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Calculate the probability of winning for a selected tic-tac-toe player
I am not a mathematician, I am a programmer. Sorry, if formulation of the problem is inexact.
I want to calculate the probability of winning for a selected tic-tac-toe player.
I have a directed graph ...
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The game of removing two vertices in a graph
Consider the following impartial combinatorial game played with finite graphs: A move removes two adjacent vertices; and of course all edges connected with them. The game then continues with the new ...
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Sliding blocks puzzle
Consider a 'game' played on a subset $S$ of an $n^2$ square grid as follows. There are 3 types of pieces, each occupying a square of $S$, 1 green, some red and the rest are blue, a move consists of ...
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Traversing the infinite square grid
Starting somewhere on an infinite square grid, is it possible to visit every square exactly once, if at move $n$, one must jump $a_n$ steps in one of the directions north,south,east or west, and mark ...
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Graph connectivity related game
I was considering the following game on an undirected unweighted graph $G=(V,E)$ (not necessarily simple). Two players, Police and Runaway, take moves in turn. Police can cut an arbitrary subset of ...
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SWAT vs Rioters (cops vs robbers variant)
I thought of this while at the Combinatorial Potlatch at Seattle University, where Peter Winkler gave an excellent talk on Cops vs Drunken Robbers. I'll just open it up to the floor. The problem ...
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A "rewiring process" on graphs
I am interested in a discrete process defined as follows. We start with a given graph. At each time step we delete an edge $(i,j)$ and add two edges $e$ and $f$; the edge $e$ is incident with $i$ and ...
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Who wins this two-player game based on the sandpile model?
Given a connected graph $G$, two players, Blue and Green, play the following game: initially, all vertices are unclaimed. Players alternate turns. On her turn, Blue adds a token to either an ...
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Do there exist chess positions that require exponentially many moves to reach?
By "chess" here I mean chess played on an $n\times n$ board with an unbounded number of (non-king) pieces. Some care is needed if you want to generalize some of the subtler rules of chess to an $n\...
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