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We introduce a graph Ramsey game called Ramsey, Paper, Scissors. This game has two players, Proposer and Decider. Starting from an empty graph on $n$ vertices, on each turn Proposer proposes a potential edge and Decider simultaneously…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jacob Fox , Xiaoyu He , Yuval Wigderson

Maker-Breaker total domination game in graphs is introduced as a natural counterpart to the Maker-Breaker domination game recently studied by Duch\^ene, Gledel, Parreau, and Renault. Both games are instances of the combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Valentin Gledel , Michael A. Henning , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, called Dominator and Staller. They alternately select an unplayed vertex in $G$. Dominator wins the game if he forms a dominating set while Staller wins the game if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Pakanun Dokyeesun

We discuss link and point deletion operators on graph games and provide a comparative logic-algorithmic study of the same. In particular, we focus on a popular notion of invariance in transition systems, namely, bisimulation, between the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sujata Ghosh , Shreyas Gupta , Lei Li

deBruijn graphs are widely used in genomics and computer science. In this paper we present a novel approach to finding weights on edges of doubly weighted deBruijn graphs. Given any fixed set of weights on vertices, we use a repeated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Nadejda Drenska

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, called Dominator and Staller, who alternately choose a vertex that has not been played so far. Dominator wins the game if his moves form a dominating set. Staller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Csilla Bujtás , Pakanun Dokyeesun

Deduction is a recently introduced graph searching process in which searchers clear the vertex set of a graph with one move each, with each searcher's movement determined by which of its neighbors are protected by other searchers. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Andrea Burgess , Danny Dyer , Kerry Ojakian , Lusheng Wang , Mingyu Xiao , Boting Yang

In the branch of mathematics known as graph theory, graphs are considered as a set of points, called vertices, with connections between these points, called edges. The purpose of this paper is to study mappings between two graphs that have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jeffrey Beyerl , Cameron Sharpe

Here, we present a variant of the sliding coins game. Two coins are placed on distinct squares of a semi-infinite linear board with squares numbered $0, 1, 2, dots, $. Two players take turns and move a coin to a lower unoccupied square.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Ryohei Miyadera , Hikaru Manabe , Unchon Lee

In the game of \emph{cops and robbers} on a graph $G = (V,E)$, $k$ cops try to catch a robber. On the cop turn, each cop may move to a neighboring vertex or remain in place. On the robber's turn, he moves similarly. The cops win if there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Andrew Beveridge , Paolo Codenotti , Aaron Maurer , John McCauley , Silviya Valeva

Counter reachability games are played by two players on a graph with labelled edges. Each move consists in picking an edge from the current location and adding its label to a counter vector. The objective is to reach a given counter value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Julien Reichert

We study the following game version of the generalized graph Tur\'an problem. For two fixed graphs F and H, two players, Max and Mini, alternately claim unclaimed edges of the complete graph Kn such that the graph G of the claimed edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Balázs Patkós , Miloš Stojaković , Jelena Stratijev , Máté Vizer

The semi-random graph process is a single player game in which the player is initially presented an empty graph on $n$ vertices. In each round, a vertex $u$ is presented to the player independently and uniformly at random. The player then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Pu Gao , Bogumil Kaminski , Calum MacRury , Pawel Pralat

The isolation game is played on a graph $G$ by two players who take turns playing a vertex such that if $X$ is the set of already played vertices, then a vertex can be selected only if it dominates a vertex from a nontrivial component of $G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Csilla Bujtás , Tanja Dravec , Michael A. Henning , Sandi Klavžar

The minimum status of a graph is the minimum of statuses of all vertices of this graph. We give a sharp upper bound for the minimum status of a connected graph with fixed order and matching number (domination number, respectively), and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Caixia Liang , Bo Zhou , Haiyan Guo

Sprout is a two-player pen and paper game which starts with $n$ vertices, and the players take turns to join two pre-existing dots by a subdivided edge while keeping the graph sub-cubic planar at all times. The first player not being able…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Soura Sena Das , Zin Mar Myint , Soumen Nandi , Sagnik Sen , Éric Sopena

The game of Nim as played on graphs was introduced in Nim on Graphs I and extended in Nim on Graphs II by Masahiko Fukuyama. His papers detail the calculation of Grundy numbers for graphs under specific circumstances. We extend these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-08 Lindsay Erickson

The garbage disposal game involves a finite set of individuals, each of whom updates their garbage by either receiving from or dumping onto others. We examine the case where only social neighbors, whose garbage levels differ by a given…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Hsin-Lun Li

The total isolation game is played on a graph $G$ by two players who take turns playing a vertex such that if $S$ is the set of already played vertices, then a vertex can be selected only if it is adjacent to a vertex that belongs to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Michael A. Henning , Douglas F. Rall

We discuss winning possibilities of players in various variants of cops and robber game played on large random graphs, a testbed for various kinds of network queries, search problems in particular. We explore the use of logic frameworks to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sourav Chakraborty , Sujata Ghosh , Smiha Samanta