On a generalization of Meyniel's conjecture on the cops and Robbers game

Noga Alon; Abbas Mehrabian

doi:10.37236/506

On a generalization of Meyniel's conjecture on the cops and Robbers game

Noga Alon, Abbas Mehrabian

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We consider a variant of the Cops and Robbers game where the robber can move s edges at a time, and show that in this variant, the cop number of a connected graph on n vertices can be as large as Ω(n^s/s+1) This improves the Ω(n^s-3/s-2) lower bound of Frieze et al. [5], and extends the result of the second author [10], which establishes the above bound for s = 2, 4.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-7
Number of pages	7
Journal	Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37236/506
State	Published - 1 Jan 2011
Externally published	Yes

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Theoretical Computer Science
Geometry and Topology
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

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