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Cops and Robbers on graphs of bounded diameter

Combinatorics 2019-12-17 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The game of Cops and Robbers is a well known game played on graphs. In this paper we consider the class of graphs of bounded diameter. We improve the strategy of cops and previously used probabilistic method which results in an improved upper bound for the cop number of graphs of bounded diameter. In particular, for graphs of diameter four, we improve the upper bound from n23+o(1)n^{\frac{2}{3}+o(1)} to n35+o(1)n^{\frac{3}{5}+o(1)} and for diameter three from n23+o(1)n^{\frac{2}{3}+o(1)} to n47+o(1)n^{\frac{4}{7}+o(1)}.

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@article{arxiv.1912.07203,
  title  = {Cops and Robbers on graphs of bounded diameter},
  author = {Seyyed Aliasghar Hosseini and Fiachra Knox and Bojan Mohar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07203},
  year   = {2019}
}
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