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The game of cops and robbers is a well-known game played on graphs. In this paper we consider the straight-ahead orientations of 4-regular quadrangulations of the torus and the Klein bottle and we prove that their cop number is bounded by a…

We highlight new results on the localization number of a graph, a parameter derived from the localization graph searching game. After introducing the game and providing an overview of existing results, we describe recent results on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Anthony Bonato , Melissa A. Huggan , Trent G. Marbach

Given a fixed graph $H$ and a positive integer $n$, a Picker-Chooser $H$-game is a biased game played on the edge set of $K_n$ in which Picker is trying to force many copies of $H$ and Chooser is trying to prevent him from doing so. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Małgorzata Bednarska-Bzdȩga , Dan Hefetz , Tomasz Łuczak

We consider the Cops and Robber pursuit-evasion game when the edge-set of the graph is allowed to change in time, possibly at every round. Specifically, the game is played on an infinite periodic sequence $\mathcal{G} = (G_0, \dots,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jean-Lou De Carufel , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro , Frédéric Simard

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 introduce and study Maker/Breaker-type positional games on random graphs. Our main concern is to determine the threshold probability $p_{F}$ for the existence of Maker's strategy to claim a member of $F$ in the unbiased game played on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Milos Stojakovic , Tibor Szabo

We introduce a new two-player game on graphs, in which players alternate choosing vertices until the set of chosen vertices forms a dominating set. The last player to choose a vertex is the winner. The game fits into the scheme of several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Sean Fiscus , Glenn Hurlbert , Eric Myzelev , Travis Pence

We study the following combinatorial game played by two players, Alice and Bob, which generalizes the Pizza game considered by Brown, Winkler and others. Given a connected graph G with nonnegative weights assigned to its vertices, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Josef Cibulka , Jan Kynčl , Viola Mészáros , Rudolf Stolař , Pavel Valtr

We introduce and study the Marco Polo problem, which is a combinatorial approach to geometric localization. In this problem, we are told there are one or more points of interest (POIs) within distance $n$ of the origin that we wish to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ofek Gila , Michael T. Goodrich , Zahra Hadizadeh , Daniel S. Hirschberg , Shayan Taherijam

Cops and robbers is a pursuit-evasion game played on graphs. We completely classify the cop numbers for $n \times n$ knight graphs and queen graphs. This completes the classification of the cop numbers for all $n \times n$ classical chess…

Let $d(x,y)$ denote the length of a shortest path between vertices $x$ and $y$ in a graph $G$ with vertex set $V$. For a positive integer $k$, let $d_k(x,y)=\min\{d(x,y), k+1\}$ and $R_k\{x,y\}=\{z\in V: d_k(x,z) \neq d_k(y,z)\}$. A set $S…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Cong X. Kang , Eunjeong Yi

We study the Localization game on locally finite graphs trees, where each of the countably many vertices have finite degree. In contrast to the finite case, we construct a locally finite tree with localization number $n$ for any choice of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Anthony Bonato , Florian Lehner , Trent G. Marbach , JD Nir

Let $c$ be a proper $k$-coloring of a connected graph $G$ and $\Pi=(C_1,C_2,...,C_k)$ be an ordered partition of $V(G)$ into the resulting color classes. For a vertex $v$ of $G$, the color code of $v$ with respect to $\Pi$ is defined to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Ali Behtoei , Behnaz Omoomi

(abstract shortened to meet arxiv's length requirements) We investigate two variants of the classical Cops and robber game in graphs, recently introduced by Lee, Mart\'inez-Pedroza, and Rodr\'iguez-Quinche. The two versions are played in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Louis Esperet , Harmender Gahlawat , Ugo Giocanti

The containment game is a full information game for two players, initialised with a set of occupied vertices in an infinite connected graph $G$. On the $t$-th turn, the first player, called Spreader, extends the occupied set to $g(t)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Ohad Noy Feldheim , Itamar Israeli

The multiplication game is a two-person game in which each player chooses a positive integer without knowledge of the other player's number. The two numbers are then multiplied together and the first digit of the product determines the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Kent E. Morrison

The Maker-Breaker domination game is a positional game played on a graph by two players called Dominator and Staller. The players alternately select a vertex of the graph that has not yet been chosen. Dominator wins if at some point the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Guillaume Bagan , Eric Duchêne , Valentin Gledel , Tuomo Lehtilä , Aline Parreau

This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to address the problem of optimal sensor placement against an adversary in uncertain networked control systems. The problem is formulated as a zero-sum game with two players, namely a malicious…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to address the problem of optimal sensor placement for detecting cyber-attacks in networked control systems. The problem is formulated as a zero-sum game with two players, namely a malicious…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Anh Tung Nguyen , André M. H. Teixeira , Alexander Medvedev

In the Maker-Breaker domination game, Dominator and Staller play on a graph $G$ by taking turns in which each player selects a not yet played vertex of $G$. Dominator's goal is to select all the vertices in a dominating set, while Staller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Athira Divakaran , Tijo James , Sandi Klavžar , Latha S Nair
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