Non-expandability conjecture for ultimately bipartite subtraction games

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Let SS be the subtraction set of an ultimately bipartite subtraction game, meaning that its nim-sequence is eventually periodic with period two and alternates between 00 and 11. Non-expandability conjecture. The subtraction set SS is non-expandable: no additional subtraction can be added to SS without changing the nim-sequence. This conjecture concerns the maximality of subtraction sets realizing ultimately bipartite nim-sequences; the preceding results establish constraints on possible added subtractions, but the general claim remains open.

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Nhan Bao Ho, “On the expansion of three-element subtraction sets”, arXiv:1202.2986 (2014).

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