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Solution to some conjectures on mobile position problems

Combinatorics 2025-07-23 v1

Abstract

The general position problem for graphs asks for the largest number of vertices in a subset SV(G)S \subseteq V(G) of a graph GG such that for any u,vSu,v \in S and any shortest u,vu,v-path PP we have SV(P)={u,v}S \cap V(P) = \{ u,v\} , whereas the mutual visibility problem requires only that for any u,vSu,v \in S there exists a shortest u,vu,v-path with SV(P)={u,v}S \cap V(P) = \{ u,v\} . In the mobile versions of these problems, robots must move through the network in general position/mutual visibility such that every vertex is visited by a robot. This paper solves some open problems from the literature. We quantify the effect of adding the restriction that every robot can visit every vertex (the so-called \emph{completely mobile} variants), prove a bound on both mobile numbers in terms of the clique number, and find the mobile mutual visibility number of line graphs of complete graphs, strong grids and Cartesian grids.

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@article{arxiv.2507.16622,
  title  = {Solution to some conjectures on mobile position problems},
  author = {Ethan Shallcross and James Tuite and Aoise Evans and Aditi Krishnakumar and Sumaiyah Boshar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16622},
  year   = {2025}
}
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