Compact metric spaces with infinite cop number
Combinatorics
2023-09-08 v1 Metric Geometry
Optimization and Control
Abstract
Mohar recently adapted the classical game of Cops and Robber from graphs to metric spaces, thereby unifying previously studied pursuit-evasion games. He conjectured that finitely many cops can win on any compact geodesic metric space, and that their number can be upper-bounded in terms of the ranks of the homology groups when the space is a simplicial pseudo-manifold. We disprove these conjectures by constructing a metric on with infinite cop number. More problems are raised than settled.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.03757,
title = {Compact metric spaces with infinite cop number},
author = {Agelos Georgakopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03757},
year = {2023}
}