The combinatorial game theory of well-tempered scoring games

DOI10.1007/S00182-013-0386-6zbMATH Open1294.91040arXiv1112.3610OpenAlexW2041147693MaRDI QIDQ2453496FDOQ2453496

Authors: Will Johnson 

Publication date: 6 June 2014

Published in: International Journal of Game Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the class of "well-tempered" integer-valued scoring games, which have the property that the parity of the length of the game is independent of the line of play. We consider disjunctive sums of these games, and develop a theory for them analogous to the standard theory of disjunctive sums of normal-play partizan games. We show that the monoid of well-tempered scoring games modulo indistinguishability is cancellative but not a group, and we describe its structure in terms of the group of normal-play partizan games. We also classify Boolean-valued well-tempered scoring games, showing that there are exactly seventy, up to equivalence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3610

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zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial gamesMilnor gamesscoring games

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial games (91A46)

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