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In this paper we study the concurrent cops and robber (CCCR) game. CCCR follows the same rules as the classical, turn-based game, except for the fact that the players move simultaneously. The cops' goal is to capture the robber and the…

离散数学 · 计算机科学 2015-06-12 Georgios Konstantinidis , Athanasios Kehagias

Motivated by a biological scenario illustrated in the YouTube video \url{ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mXDvZQ6dU} where a neutrophil chases a bacteria cell moving in random directions, we present a variant of the cop and robber game on…

The game of Cops and Robbers is a pursuit-evasion game on graphs that has been extensively studied in finite settings, particularly through the concept of cop number. In this paper, we explore infinite variants of the game, focusing on the…

组合数学 · 数学 2025-09-04 Kenzie Fontenot , Iris Nguyen , Cody Olsen

We consider a game in which a cop searches for a moving robber on a connected graph using distance probes, which is a slight variation on one introduced by Seager. Carragher, Choi, Delcourt, Erickson and West showed that for any $n$-vertex…

组合数学 · 数学 2017-11-23 John Haslegrave , Richard A. B. Johnson , Sebastian Koch

We study the entanglement game, which is a version of cops and robbers, on sparse graphs. While the minimum degree of a graph G is a lower bound for the number of cops needed to catch a robber in G, we show that the required number of cops…

离散数学 · 计算机科学 2018-01-23 Anders Martinsson , Florian Meier , Patrick Schnider , Angelika Steger

In the classic game of Cops and Robbers, a team of cops pursues a robber through a graph. The traditional model of Cops and Robbers operates under the assumption that the cops know the robber's location at all times. Recently, however,…

组合数学 · 数学 2025-09-08 John Jones , William B. Kinnersley

In the game of Cops and Robbers, one of the most useful results is that an isometric path in a graph can be guarded by one cop. In this paper, we introduce the concept of wide shadow in a subgraph, and use it to characterize all 1-guardable…

组合数学 · 数学 2024-06-04 Sebastián González Hermosillo de la Maza , Bojan Mohar

Cops and Robber is a family of two-player games played on graphs in which one player controls a number of cops and the other player controls a robber. In alternating turns, each player moves (all) their figures. The cops try to capture the…

组合数学 · 数学 2024-01-11 Minh Tuan Ha , Paul Jungeblut , Torsten Ueckerdt , Paweł Żyliński

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 +…

组合数学 · 数学 2010-04-15 Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich , Po-Shen Loh

The game of Cops and Robbers is a well known game played on graphs. In this paper we consider the class of graphs of bounded diameter. We improve the strategy of cops and previously used probabilistic method which results in an improved…

组合数学 · 数学 2019-12-17 Seyyed Aliasghar Hosseini , Fiachra Knox , Bojan Mohar

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.…

离散数学 · 计算机科学 2025-04-11 Sandip Das , Harmender Gahlawat

(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…

组合数学 · 数学 2026-02-24 Louis Esperet , Harmender Gahlawat , Ugo Giocanti

A generalization of hyperopic cops and robber, analogous to the $k$-visibility cops and robber, is introduced in this paper. For a positive integer $k$ the $k$-hyperopic game of cops and robber is defined similarly as the usual cops and…

组合数学 · 数学 2024-10-24 Nicholas Crawford , Vesna Iršič Chenoweth

The game of Cops and Robbers is a well known pursuit-evasion game played on graphs. It has been proved \cite{bounded_degree} that cubic graphs can have arbitrarily large cop number $c(G)$, but the known constructions show only that the set…

We investigate a pursuit-evasion game on an undirected graph in which a robber, moving at a fixed constant speed, attempts to evade a team of cops who are blind to the robber's location and can quickly travel between any pair of vertices in…

组合数学 · 数学 2025-12-01 Hector Buffière , Rutger Campbell , Kevin Hendrey , Sang-il Oum

In the classic cop and robber game, two players--the cop and the robber--take turns moving to a neighboring vertex or staying at their current position. The cop aims to capture the robber, while the robber tries to evade capture. A graph…

组合数学 · 数学 2025-02-17 Tanja Dravec , Vesna Iršič Chenoweth , Andrej Taranenko

The cop number of a graph $G$ is the smallest $k$ such that $k$ cops win the game of cops and robber on $G$. We investigate the maximum cop number of geometric intersection graphs, which are graphs whose vertices are represented by…

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…

计算机科学中的逻辑 · 计算机科学 2025-12-01 Sourav Chakraborty , Sujata Ghosh , Smiha Samanta

A relational characterization of cop-win graphs was provided by Nowakowski and Winkler in their seminal paper on the game of Cops and Robbers. As a by-product of that characterization, each cop-win graph is assigned a unique ordinal, which…

组合数学 · 数学 2019-05-16 Anthony Bonato , Przemysław Gordinowicz , Gena Hahn

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…

组合数学 · 数学 2026-02-10 Vesna Iršič Chenoweth , Matija Skrt