The spectrum of nim-values for achievement games for generating finite groups

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Authors: Bret J. Benesh, Dana C. Ernst, Nándor Sieben 

Abstract: We study an impartial achievement game introduced by Anderson and Harary. The game is played by two players who alternately select previously unselected elements of a finite group. The game ends when the jointly selected elements generate the group. The last player able to make a move is the winner of the game. We prove that the spectrum of nim-values of these games is $0,1,2,3,4$. This positively answers two conjectures from a previous paper by the last two authors.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Combinatorial games (91A46)

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