2 papers
math.CO2026
Additive sink subtraction
Anjali Bhagat, Urban Larsson, Hikaru Manabe +1
Subtraction games are a classical topic in Combinatorial Game Theory. A result of Golomb~(1966) shows that every subtraction game with a finite move set has an eventually periodic…
math.CO2026
Tie-breaking in self interest cumulative subtraction games
Anjali Bhagat, Tanmay Kulkarni, Urban Larsson +1
Subtraction games have a rich literature as normal-play combinatorial games (e.g., Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy, 1982). Recently, the theory has been extended to zero-sum scoring pla…