Wythoff nim extensions and splitting sequences
Journal article, 2014

We study extensions of the classical impartial combinatorial game of Wythoff Nim. The games are played on two heaps of tokens, and have symmetric move options, so that, for any integers 0 ≤ x ≤ y, the outcome of the upper position (x, y) is identical to that of (y, x). First we prove that Φ-1 = 2/1+√5 is a lower bound for the lower asymptotic density of the x-coordinates of a given game’s upper P-positions. The second result concerns a subfamily, called a Generalized Diagonal Wythoff Nim, recently introduced by Larsson. A certain split of P-positions, distributed in a number of so-called P- beams, was conjectured for many such games. The term split here means that an infinite sector of upper positions is void of P-positions, but with infinitely many upper P-positions above and below it. By using the first result, we prove this conjecture for one of these games, called (1, 2)-GDWN, where a player moves as in Wythoff Nim, or instead chooses to remove a positive number of tokens from one heap and twice that number from the other.

Complementary sequence

Lower asymptotic density

Combinatorial game

Wythoff nim

Impartial game

Integer sequence

Golden ratio

Splitting sequence

Author

Urban Larsson

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics

University of Gothenburg

Journal of Integer Sequences

15307638 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 5 artikel 14.5.7- 14.5.7

Subject Categories

Mathematics

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