Mind the gap: A real-valued distance on combinatorial games

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Abstract

We define a real-valued distance metric wdwd on the space C\mathcal{C} of short combinatorial games in canonical form. We demonstrate the existence of Cauchy sequences informed by sidling sequences, find limit points, and investigate the closure C‾\overline{\mathcal{C}}, which is shown to partition the set of loopy games in a non-trivial way. Stoppers, enders, and non-stopper-sided loopy games are explored, as well as the topological properties of (C,wd)(\mathcal{C},wd).

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