Bidding Combinatorial Games

Kant, Prem, Larsson, Urban, Rai, Ravi K ORCID: 0000-0001-5956-4714 and Upasany, Akshay V (2024) Bidding Combinatorial Games. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 31 (1).

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37236/11846

Abstract

<jats:p>Combinatorial Game Theory is a branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that studies sequential 2-player games with perfect information. Normal play is the convention where a player who cannot move loses. Here, we generalize the classical alternating normal play to infinitely many game families, by means of discrete Richman auctions (Develin et al. 2010, Larsson et al. 2021, Lazarus et al. 1996). We generalize the notion of a perfect play outcome, and find an exact characterization of outcome feasibility. As a main result, we prove existence of a game form for each such outcome class; then we describe their lattice structures. By imposing restrictions to the general families, such as impartial and symmetric termination, we find surprising analogies with alternating play.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2024 16:43
Last Modified:	02 Apr 2024 09:26
DOI:	10.37236/11846
Open Access URL:	https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/a...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3179670