Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
436299 Theoretical Computer Science 2014 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

In graph cleaning problems, brushes clean a graph by traversing it subject to certain rules. We consider the process where at each time step, a vertex that has at least as many brushes as incident, contaminated edges, sends brushes down these edges to clean them. Various problems arise, such as determining the minimum number of brushes (called the brush number) that are required to clean the entire graph. Here, we study a new variant of the problem in which no more than k brushes can be sent at any time step.

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