How to play the one-lie Rényi-Ulam game

نویسندگان

  • Robert B. Ellis
  • Vadim Ponomarenko
  • Catherine H. Yan
چکیده

The one-lie Rényi-Ulam liar game is a 2-player perfect information zero sum game, lasting q rounds, on the set [n] := {1, . . . , n}. In each round Paul chooses a subset A ⊆ [n] and Carole either assigns 1 lie to each element of A or to each element of [n] \ A. Paul wins the regular (resp. pathological) game if after q rounds there is at least one (resp. at most one) element with one or fewer lies. We exhibit a simple, unified, optimal strategy for Paul to follow in both games, and use this to determine which player can win for all q, n and for both games.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Mathematics

دوره 308  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008