Yukun Yao, Rutgers University

Abstract

We will talk about the peaceable queens problem, the protagonist of OEIS sequence A250000, and our partial progresses. Symbolically, we prove that Jubin’s construction of two pentagons is at least a local optimum. Numerically, the exact numerical optimums for some specific configurations are found. Our method can be easily applied to more complicated configurations with more parameters. This is a joint work with Prof. Doron Zeilberger.