paper

Nullhomotopic and Generating Knight's Tours on Non-Orientable Surfaces

arXiv:2406.05226

Abstract

We investigate closed knight's tours on Möbius strip and Klein bottle chess boards. In particular, we characterize the board dimensions that admit tours that are nullhomotopic and the board dimensions that admit tours that realize generators of the fundamental groups of each of the surfaces.

33 pages, 23 figures