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Pursuit-evasion games on latin square graphs

Combinatorics 2021-10-01 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We investigate various pursuit-evasion parameters on latin square graphs, including the cop number, metric dimension, and localization number. The cop number of latin square graphs is studied, and for kk-MOLS(n),(n), bounds for the cop number are given. If n>(k+1)2,n>(k+1)^2, then the cop number is shown to be k+2.k+2. Lower and upper bounds are provided for the metric dimension and localization number of latin square graphs. The metric dimension of back-circulant latin squares shows that the lower bound is close to tight. Recent results on covers and partial transversals of latin squares provide the upper bound of n+O(lognloglogn)n+O\left(\frac{\log{n}}{\log{\log{n}}}\right) on the localization number of a latin square graph of order n.n.

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@article{arxiv.2109.14669,
  title  = {Pursuit-evasion games on latin square graphs},
  author = {Shreya Ahirwar and Anthony Bonato and Leanna Gittins and Alice Huang and Trent G. Marbach and Tomer Zaidman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14669},
  year   = {2021}
}
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