IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Online ISSN : 1745-1361
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Special Section on Foundations of Computer Science — Mathematical Foundations and Applications of Algorithms and Computer Science —
Analysis of Recurrence Relations Generalized from the 4-Peg Tower of Hanoi
Akihiro MATSUURA
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2011 Volume E94.D Issue 2 Pages 220-225

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In this paper, we analyze recurrence relations generalized from the Tower of Hanoi problem of the form T(n,α,β)=min1≤tnT(n-t,α,β)+βS(t,3)}, where S(t,3)=2t-1 is the optimal total number of moves for the 3-peg Tower of Hanoi problem. It is shown that when α and β are natural numbers, the sequence of differences of T(n,α,β)'s, i.e., {T(n,α,β)-T(n-1,α,β)}, consists of numbers of the form β2iαj (i,j≥0) lined in the increasing order.

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