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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

Completely symmetric configurations for σ -games on grid graphs

Mathieu Florence and Frédéric Meunier

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-009-0199-7

Abstract

The paper deals with σ -games on grid graphs (in dimension 2 and more) and conditions under which any completely symmetric configuration of lit vertices can be reached - in particular the completely lit configuration - when starting with the all-unlit configuration. The answer is complete in dimension 2. In dimension \geq 3, the answer is complete for the σ  +-game, and for the σ   - -game if at least one of the sizes is even. The case σ   - , dimension \geq 3 and all sizes odd remains open.

Pages: 533–545

Keywords: keywords sigma-games; chebychev polynomials; commutative algebra

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References

1. Barua, R., Ramakrishnan, S.: σ- -game, σ+-game and two-dimensional additive cellular automata.




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