Misère-play Hackenbush sprigs

DOI10.1007/S00182-015-0484-8zbMATH Open1388.91079arXiv1202.5654OpenAlexW1529977182MaRDI QIDQ328573FDOQ328573

R. J. Nowakowski, Neil A. McKay, Rebecca Milley

Publication date: 20 October 2016

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

Abstract: A Hackenbush Sprig is a Hackenbush String with the ground edge colored green and the remaining edges either red or blue. We show that in canonical form a Sprig is a star-based number (the ordinal sum of star and a dyadic rational) in mis`ere-play, as well as in normal-play. We find the outcome of a disjunctive sum of Sprigs in mis`ere-play and show that it is the same as the outcome of that sum plus star in normal-play. Along the way it is shown that the sum of a Sprig and its negative is equivalent to 0 in the universe of mis`ere-play dicotic games, answering a question of Allen.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5654

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zbMATH Keywords

all-smalldicotHackenbushstar-based numbermisère

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial games (91A46)

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