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Creating cycles in Walker-Breaker games

Combinatorics 2016-04-29 v2

Abstract

We consider biased (1:b)(1:b) Walker-Breaker games: Walker and Breaker alternately claim edges of the complete graph KnK_n, Walker taking one edge and Breaker claiming bb edges in each round, with the constraint that Walker needs to choose her edges according to a walk. As questioned in a paper by Espig, Frieze, Krivelevich and Pegden, we study how long a cycle Walker is able to create and for which biases bb Walker has a chance to create a cycle of given constant length.

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@article{arxiv.1505.02678,
  title  = {Creating cycles in Walker-Breaker games},
  author = {Dennis Clemens and Tuan Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02678},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

23 pages, to appear in Discrete Mathematics

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