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We introduce two variations of the cops and robber game on graphs. These games yield two invariants in $\mathbb{Z}_+\cup\{\infty\}$ for any connected graph $\Gamma$, the {weak cop number $\mathsf{wcop}(\Gamma)$} and the {strong cop number…

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…

组合数学 · 数学 2011-11-10 Dirk Oliver Theis

(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

Cops and Robbers is a type of pursuit-evasion game played on a graph where a set of cops try to capture a single robber. The cops first choose their initial vertex positions, and later the robber chooses a vertex. The cops and robbers make…

离散数学 · 计算机科学 2024-09-25 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Anil Maheshwari , Karthik Murali

We consider the pursuit and evasion game on finite, connected, undirected graphs known as cops and robbers. Meyniel conjectured that for every graph on n vertices a rootish number of cops can win the game. We prove that this holds up to a…

组合数学 · 数学 2008-05-20 Bela Bollobas , Gabor Kun , Imre Leader

Cops and Robbers is a pursuit-evasion game played on graphs, of which many variants have been developed and studied. We introduce a variant of this game, "Sneaky-Active Cops and Robbers", where all cops and robber must move on their turn,…

组合数学 · 数学 2026-03-16 Tien Chih , Laura Scull

We introduce a new variant of the game of Cops and Robbers played on graphs, where the robber is invisible unless outside the neighbor set of a cop. The hyperopic cop number is the corresponding analogue of the cop number, and we…

组合数学 · 数学 2017-10-30 A. Bonato , N. E. Clarke , D. Cox , S. Finbow , F. Mc Inerney , M. E. Messinger

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

We consider "surrounding" versions of the classic Cops and Robber game. The game is played on a connected graph in which two players, one controlling a number of cops and the other controlling a robber, take alternating turns. In a turn,…

组合数学 · 数学 2024-10-14 Paul Jungeblut , Samuel Schneider , Torsten Ueckerdt

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

The 'Cheating Robot' version of Cops and Robbers is played on a finite, simple, connected graph. The players move in the same time period. However, before moving, the robot observes to which vertices the cops are moving and it is fast…

组合数学 · 数学 2021-03-12 Melissa A. Huggan , Richard J. Nowakowski

We study the vertex pursuit game of \emph{Cops and Robbers}, in which cops try to capture a robber on the vertices of the graph. The minimum number of cops required to win on a given graph $G$ is called the cop number of $G$. We focus on…

组合数学 · 数学 2014-06-12 Noga Alon , Pawel Pralat

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

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…

组合数学 · 数学 2021-07-16 Nancy E. Clarke , Stephen Finbow , Margaret-Ellen Messinger , Amanda Porter

The game of cops and robber is a pursuit-evasion game played on graphs that has been extensively studied. Traditionally the game is played with one or more cops and only one robber, but in this paper we consider the game played with…

组合数学 · 数学 2025-09-15 Miha Gyergyek , Vesna Iršič Chenoweth

We consider a variant of Cops and Robbers in which the robber may traverse as many edges as he likes in each turn, with the constraint that he cannot pass through any vertex occupied by a cop. We study this model on several classes of…

组合数学 · 数学 2022-05-17 William B. Kinnersley , Nikolas Townsend

We introduce the game of Cops and Eternal Robbers played on graphs, where there are infinitely many robbers that appear sequentially over distinct plays of the game. A positive integer $t$ is fixed, and the cops are required to capture the…

离散数学 · 计算机科学 2020-03-11 Anthony Bonato , Melissa Huggan , Trent Marbach , Fionn Mc Inerney

Aigner and Fromme initiated the systematic study of the cop number of a graph by proving the elegant and sharp result that in every connected planar graph, three cops are sufficient to win a natural pursuit game against a single robber.…

组合数学 · 数学 2015-07-07 Po-Shen Loh , Siyoung Oh

We survey results at the intersection of topological graph theory and the game of Cops and Robbers, focusing on results, conjectures, and open problems for the cop number of a graph embedded on a surface. After a discussion on results for…

组合数学 · 数学 2018-04-24 Anthony Bonato , Bojan Mohar

We investigate a cops and robber game on directed graphs, where the robber moves along the arcs of the graph, while the cops can select any position at each time step. Our main focus is on the cop number: the minimum number of cops required…

计算复杂性 · 计算机科学 2024-10-08 Walid Ben-Ameur , Alessandro Maddaloni