The linking-unlinking game

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2019.12.1109MaRDI QIDQ2278631zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Adam Giambrone, Jake Murphy

Publication date 5 December 2019

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11026

zbMATH Keywords

knotlinklink shadowlinking-unlinking gametwo-person gamewinning strategy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) 2-person games (91A05) Combinatorial games (91A46)

Abstract: Combinatorial two-player games have recently been applied to knot theory. Examples of this include the Knotting-Unknotting Game and the Region Unknotting Game, both of which are played on knot shadows. These are turn-based games played by two players, where each player has a separate goal to achieve in order to win the game. In this paper, we introduce the Linking-Unlinking Game which is played on two-component link shadows. We then present winning strategies for the Linking-Unlinking Game played on all shadows of two-component rational tangle closures and played on a large family of general two-component link shadows.

Review text

The authors consider a class of combinatorial two-person games based on notions of knot theory. In particular, they introduce the notion of a linking-unlinking game which is played on two-component link shadows and present sufficient conditions for the existence of winning strategies for players.

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