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"Zombies and Survivor" is a variant of the well-studied game of "Cops and Robber" where the zombies (cops) can only move closer to the survivor (robber). We consider the deterministic version of the game where a zombie can choose their path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Valentin Bartier , Laurine Bénéteau , Marthe Bonamy , Hoang La , Jonathan Narboni

Here we merge the two fields of Cops and Robbers and Graph Pebbling to introduce the new topic of Cops and Robbers Pebbling. Both paradigms can be described by moving tokens (the cops) along the edges of a graph to capture a special token…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Nancy Clarke , Joshua Forkin , Glenn Hurlbert

Introduced by Harris, Insko, Prieto Langarica, Stoisavljevic, and Sullivan, the \emph{tipsy cop and drunken robber} is a variant of the cop and robber game on graphs in which the robber simply moves randomly along the graph, while the cop…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Pamela E. Harris , Erik Insko , Florian Lehner

Cops and Robber is a well-studied two-player pursuit-evasion game played on a graph, where a group of cops tries to capture the robber. The \emph{cop number} of a graph is the minimum number of cops required to capture the robber.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sandip Das , Harmender Gahlawat

Let $\Gamma$ be a finite graph and let $A(\Gamma)$ be its adjacency matrix. Then $\Gamma$ is {\it singular} if $A(\Gamma)$ is singular. The singularity of graphs is of certain interest in graph theory and algebraic combinatorics. Here we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Johannes Siemons , Alexandre Zalesski

We prove that every locally finite, quasi-transitive graph with a thick end whose cycle space is generated by cycles of bounded length contains the full-grid as an asymptotic minor and as a diverging minor. This in particular includes all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Sandra Albrechtsen , Matthias Hamann

We explore a variant of the game of Cops and Robber introduced by Bonato et al.~where the robber is invisible unless outside the common neighbourhood of the cops. The hyperopic cop number is analogous to the cop number and we investigate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Nancy E. Clarke , Stephen Finbow , Margaret-Ellen Messinger , Amanda Porter

We show that the total variation mixing time is not quasi-isometry invariant, even for Cayley graphs. Namely, we construct a sequence of pairs of Cayley graphs with maps between them that twist the metric in a bounded way, while the ratio…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Jonathan Hermon , Gady Kozma

Graphons are analytic objects representing limits of convergent sequences of graphs. Lov\'asz and Szegedy conjectured that every finitely forcible graphon, i.e. any graphon determined by finitely many graph densities, has a simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-29 Jacob W. Cooper , Tomas Kaiser , Daniel Kral , Jonathan A. Noel

We consider several variants of the classical Cops and Robbers game. We treat the version where the robber can move R > 1 edges at a time, establishing a general upper bound of N / \alpha ^{(1-o(1))\sqrt{log_\alpha N}}, where \alpha = 1 +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-15 Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich , Po-Shen Loh

A weak odd dominated (WOD) set in a graph is a subset B of vertices for which there exists a distinct set of vertices C such that every vertex in B has an odd number of neighbors in C. We point out the connections of weak odd domination…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Sylvain Gravier , Jérôme Javelle , Mehdi Mhalla , Simon Perdrix

The theory of graph limits represents large graphs by analytic objects called graphons. Graph limits determined by finitely many graph densities, which are represented by finitely forcible graphons, arise in various scenarios, particularly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Jacob W. Cooper , Daniel Kral , Taisa L. Martins

The Evasiveness conjecture have been proved for properties of graphs on a prime-power number of vertices and the six vertices case. The ten vertices case is still unsolved. In this paper we study the size of the automorphism group of a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Andres Angel , Jerson Borja

Meyniel's conjecture is one of the deepest open problems on the cop number of a graph. It states that for a connected graph $G$ of order $n,$ $c(G) = O(\sqrt{n}).$ While largely ignored for over 20 years, the conjecture is receiving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-16 William Baird , Anthony Bonato

The localization game is a variant of the game of Cops and Robber in which the robber is invisible and moves between adjacent vertices, but the cops can probe any $k$ vertices of the graph to obtain the distance between probed vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Vesna Iršič Chenoweth , Matija Skrt

Local Irregularity Conjecture states that every simple connected graph, except special cacti, can be decomposed into at most three locally irregular graphs, i.e., graphs in which adjacent vertices have different degrees. The connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Igor Grzelec , Alfréd Onderko , Mariusz Woźniak

We introduce the notion of connection thickness of spheres in a Cayley graph, related to dead-ends and their retreat depth. It was well-known that connection thickness is bounded for finitely presented one-ended groups. We compute that for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Jérémie Brieussel , Antoine Gournay

The Cops and Robber game is played on undirected finite graphs. $k$ cops and one robber are positioned on vertices and take turn in moving along edges. The cops win if, after a move, a cop and the robber are on the same vertex. A graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Dirk Oliver Theis

Many extremal problems for graphs have threshold graphs as their extremal examples. For instance the current authors proved that for fixed $k\ge 1$, among all graphs on $n$ vertices with $m$ edges, some threshold graph has the fewest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-03 L. Keough , A. J. Radcliffe

Although it has recently been proved that the packing chromatic number is unbounded on the class of subcubic graphs, there exists subclasses in which the packing chromatic number is finite (and small). These subclasses include subcubic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Nicolas Gastineau , P{ř}emysl Holub , Olivier Togni