Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4656769 Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 2015 20 Pages PDF
Abstract

We investigate the computational complexity of deciding whether k cops can capture a robber on a graph G. Goldstein and Reingold (1995) [8] conjectured that the problem is EXPTIME-complete when both G and k are part of the input; we prove this conjecture.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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