The Magnus-Derek game revisited

C.A.J. Hurkens; R.A. Pendavingh; G.J. Woeginger

doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2008.08.007

The Magnus-Derek game revisited

C.A.J. Hurkens
, R.A. Pendavingh
, G.J. Woeginger

Combinatorial Optimization

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We provide a new adaptive strategy for the maximizer in the Magnus–Derek game on the n-cycle. We show that this new strategy succeeds within O(nlogn) rounds, and thus improves on a predecessor result that uses a quadratic number of rounds.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	38-40
Journal	Information Processing Letters
Volume	109
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2008.08.007
Publication status	Published - 2008

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