The splitting conjecture for generalized diagonal Wythoff Nim

Fix p,qNp,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)))nU=((an,bn))nN0((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)))nU((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.

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Primary source

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

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