Invariant games and non-homogeneous Beatty sequences

نویسندگان

  • Julien Cassaigne
  • Éric Duchêne
  • Michel Rigo
چکیده

We characterize all the pairs of complementary non-homogenous Beatty sequences (An) n≥0 and (Bn) n≥0 for which there exists an invariant game having exactly {(An, Bn) | n ≥ 0} ∪ {(Bn, An) | n ≥ 0} as set of P-positions. Using the notion of Sturmian word and tools arising in symbolic dynamics and combinatorics on words, this characterization can be translated to a decision procedure relying only on a few algebraic tests about algebraic-ity or rational independence. Given any four real numbers defining the two sequences, up to these tests, we can therefore decide whether or not such an invariant game exists.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1312.2233  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013