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Minimum-Turn Tours of Even Polyominoes
Nikolai Beluhov
Let be a connected bounded region in the plane formed out of blocks joined by their sides. Peng and Rascoussier conjectured that all minimum-turn Hamiltonian cycle…
Double Tiles
Nikolai Beluhov
Which polygons admit two (or more) distinct lattice tilings of the plane? We call such polygons double tiles. It is well-known that a lattice tiling is always combinatorially isomo…
Slitherlink Signatures
Nikolai Beluhov
Let be a planar graph and let be a cycle in . Inside of each finite face of , we write down the number of edges of that face which belong to . This is the signatur…
Snake Paths in King and Knight Graphs
Nikolai Beluhov
A snake path in a graph is a path in which is also an induced subgraph of . For all , we find the greatest length of a snake path in the king graph and w…
Induction on Descent in Leaper Graphs
Nikolai Beluhov
We construct an infinite ternary tree whose root is the knight and whose vertices are all skew free leapers. We define the descent of a skew free leaper to be its "a…
One Curious Identity Counting Graceful Labelings
Nikolai Beluhov
Let and be positive integers with prime factorisations and . We prove that the number of essentially distinct -graceful labelings of the…
The Flexibility and Rigidity of Leaper Frameworks
Nikolai Beluhov
A leaper framework is a bar-and-joint framework whose joints are integer points forming a rectangular grid and whose bars correspond to all moves of a given leaper within that grid…
A Proof of Willcocks's Conjecture
Nikolai Beluhov
We give a proof of Willcocks's Conjecture, stating that if and are relatively prime, then there exists a Hamiltonian tour of a -leaper on a square chessboar…
The Second Leaper Theorem
Nikolai Beluhov
A -leaper is a fairy chess piece that, from a square , can move to any of the squares or . Let be a -leaper with $p…
Renyi-Ulam Games and Forbidden Substrings
Nikolai Beluhov
The Renyi-Ulam game is played between two players, the Seeker and the Obscurer. The Obscurer thinks of a number between 1 and . The Seeker wishes to identify that number. On eac…
On Crosspatch Knight's Tours
Nikolai Beluhov
A knight's tour is often represented as a broken line connecting the centers of successively visited squares. We say that two knight moves form a cross if the midpoints of their re…