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- From: mlc@iberia.cca.cr.rockwell.com ("Mike Cook, x2792, 124-211")
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- Subject: RE: Ramsey Theory Games
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:18:36 CST
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- > In-reply-to: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu's message of 11 Nov 92 23:55:26 GMT
- >
- > I don't know why it never occurred to me before, but you could take
- > nearly any result from Ramsey Theory and make a game out of it.
- >
- > For example:
- >
- > Ramsey's Theorem: For any positive integers C and S, there
- > exists a positive integer N such that if the edges of the
- > complete graph on N vertices are partitioned into C sets, then
- > there is at least one complete graph on S vertices whose edges
- > are all in one set.
- >
- > When C=2 and S=6, we have N=3. (Well-known proof left as exercise for
- > the interested reader.) So when (C) two players take turns coloring the
- > edges of the complete graph on (S) 6 vertices (that is, putting the
- > edges into their own sets), at least one player will have a complete
- > graph with (N) 3 vertices---a triangle. If whoever gets a triangle
- > first loses, there can be no draws. This game is `sim'.
-
- See:
- "A Strategy for the Ramsey Game of 'Tritip'",
- Michael L. Cook and Dr. Leslie Shader,
- Proceedings of the Tenth Southeastern Conference on
- Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing,
- April 1979, pp 315-324.
-
- The object of this 2-player game is to color edges of a Ramsey
- graph, trying to prevent the other player from coloring edges
- that would form the following graph (other orientations allowed,
- of course).
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- X---------------X
- \ /
- \ /
- \ /
- \ /
- \ /
- \ /
- \ /
- X
- |
- |
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- X
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- See also some other papers by Shader where graph theory plays a part.
-
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- Michael Cook
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