Pursuing a fast robber on a graph

DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2009.12.010zbMath1192.91027OpenAlexW2065848091WikidataQ60488639 ScholiaQ60488639MaRDI QIDQ2268876

Nicolas Nisse, Karol Suchan, Fedor V. Fomin, Jan Kratochvíl, Petr A. Golovach

Publication date: 9 March 2010

Published in: Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2009.12.010

zbMATH Keywords

complexityplanar graphcops and robbersparameterized complexitycliquewidthpursuit-evasion game on graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Games involving graphs (91A43) Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17) Positional games (pursuit and evasion, etc.) (91A24)

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