Title
POLISH-Let us play the cleaning game
Abstract
polish is a game based on the 'Cleaning with Brushes' model. It is a combinatorial game in the sense of Conway but can be seen as a graph searching or chip-firing problem as well. We consider only the impartial version and give a characterization of graphs with maximum degree two that are first player wins. We also show that the second player can win on the complete graph K"n provided n=3 and the complete bipartite graph K"2","n provided n1,3. We give the nim-values for all positions on paths, stars, and also the nim-values for complete bipartite graphs where every vertex needs at most 3 more brushes to fire.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.tcs.2012.05.014
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cleaning game,player win,maximum degree,complete graph K,impartial version,combinatorial game,chip-firing problem,complete bipartite graph K,vertex need,complete bipartite graph
Journal
463,
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0304-3975
0
0.34
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Przemysaw Gordinowicz100.34
Richard J. Nowakowski2441142.85
Pawe Praat3272.84