The splitting conjecture for generalized diagonal Wythoff Nim

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Fix p,q∈Np,q\in\mathbb{N}, let π=πp,q\pi=\pi_{p,q}, and let a=a(p,q)a=a(p,q) and b=b(p,q)b=b(p,q) be the associated sequences. Let UU and N0\mathbb{N}_0 have the meanings fixed earlier in the paper, and let splitting and splitting precisely once be as defined for sequences of integer pairs. The splitting conjecture.

  1. The sequence
((n,π(n)))n∈U=((an,bn))n∈N0((n,\pi(n)))_{n\in U}=((a_n,b_n))_{n\in\mathbb{N}_0}

splits if and only if (p,q)(p,q) is a splitting pair.

  1. If (p,q)(p,q) is a splitting pair, then ((n,π(n)))n∈U((n,\pi(n)))_{n\in U} splits precisely once.

The conjecture characterizes splitting through the Wythoff and dual Wythoff pairs and predicts that every splitting case has exactly one split.

References

Primary source

Urban Larsson, “A Generalized Diagonal Wythoff Nim”, arXiv:1005.1555 (2010).

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