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View SchemaMind the gap: A real-valued distance on combinatorial games
| Authors | Kyle Burke, Michael Fisher, Craig Tennenhouse |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.10574vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10574 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
We define a real-valued distance metric $wd$ on the space $\mathcal{C}$ of short combinatorial games in canonical form. We demonstrate the existence of Cauchy sequences informed by sidling sequences, find limit points, and investigate the closure $\overline{\mathcal{C}}$, which is shown to partition the set of loopy games in a non-trivial way. Stoppers, enders, and non-stopper-sided loopy games are explored, as well as the topological properties of $(\mathcal{C},wd)$.
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