Maker playing against an invisible Breaker

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Main Authors: Clemens, Dennis, Hamann, Fabian, Mikalački, Mirjana, Mogge, Yannick, Stojaković, Miloš
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Published: 2025
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author Clemens, Dennis
Hamann, Fabian
Mikalački, Mirjana
Mogge, Yannick
Stojaković, Miloš
author_facet Clemens, Dennis
Hamann, Fabian
Mikalački, Mirjana
Mogge, Yannick
Stojaković, Miloš
contents We initiate the study of the phantom version of Maker-Breaker positional games. In a phantom game, the moves of one of the players are hidden from the other player, who still has the complete information. We look at the biased $(a:b)$ Maker-PhantomBreaker games where the board is the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$, and Maker has no information about PhantomBreaker's choices of edges. We give randomized strategies for both players in four classical games: connectivity game, perfect matching game, mindegree-$k$ game and Hamiltonicity game. In particular, we focus on characterizing all biases $(a:b)$ for which Maker wins asymptotically almost surely.
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spellingShingle Maker playing against an invisible Breaker
Clemens, Dennis
Hamann, Fabian
Mikalački, Mirjana
Mogge, Yannick
Stojaković, Miloš
Combinatorics
05C57, 05C40, 05C45
We initiate the study of the phantom version of Maker-Breaker positional games. In a phantom game, the moves of one of the players are hidden from the other player, who still has the complete information. We look at the biased $(a:b)$ Maker-PhantomBreaker games where the board is the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$, and Maker has no information about PhantomBreaker's choices of edges. We give randomized strategies for both players in four classical games: connectivity game, perfect matching game, mindegree-$k$ game and Hamiltonicity game. In particular, we focus on characterizing all biases $(a:b)$ for which Maker wins asymptotically almost surely.
title Maker playing against an invisible Breaker
topic Combinatorics
05C57, 05C40, 05C45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22519