Peg solitaire is classically a one-player game played on a grid board containing pegs. The goal of the game is to have a single peg remaining on the board by sequentially jumping with a peg over an adjacent peg onto an empty cell while eliminating the jumped peg. Conway's soldiers is a related game played on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with pegs initially located on the half-space $y \le 0$. The goal is to bring a peg as far up as possible on the board using peg solitaire jumps. Conway showed that bringing a peg to the line $y = 5$ is impossible with finitely many jumps. Applying Conway's approach, we prove an analogous impossibility property on graphs. In addition, we generalize peg solitaire on finite graphs as introduced by Beeler and Hoilman (2011) to an infinite game played on countable graphs.
翻译:Peg Solitaire 是一个玩家游戏, 典型地说, 是一个玩家游戏, 在包含比格的网格板上玩。 游戏的目标是在板上留下一个单比格, 以相邻的钉子为钉子, 排在空格上, 并消除跳的钉子 。 Conway 的士兵是一个相关的游戏, 最初在半空 $y\le 0 $ 。 目标是尽可能在板上设置一个比格的钉子 。 Conway 显示, 将比格 = 5 $ 的钉子绑在线上是无法做到的。 应用 Conway 的方法, 我们在图形上证明一个类似不可能的属性 。 此外, 我们把比勒 和 Hoilman (2011) 介绍的定数图上的比格索利泰尔 普遍化为无限的游戏 。