Enumerative Properties of Posets Corresponding to a Certain Class of Games of No Strategy
Caleb Ji
Department of Mathematics
Washington University in St. Louis
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St. Louis, MO 63130
USA
Abstract:
In this paper, we consider a game beginning with a multiset of elements from a group. Each move replaces two elements with their sum. This is a game of no strategy and can be modeled by a graded poset with the rank of a node equal to the cardinality of its multiset. We study the enumerative properties of certain variations of this game, such as the number of ways to play them and their numbers of end states. This leads to several new sequences, as well as new interpretations of classic sequences such as those found in the Catalan and Motzkin triangles.
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(Concerned with sequences
A000097
A000108
A001006
A001263
A002846
A014138
A026300
A117142
A117143
A140144
A194621
A276027
A276028
A276029
A276030
A276031
A276032
A276033.)
Received August 26 2016; revised versions received December 30 2016; March 20 2017.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, March 25 2017.
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