• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.127-131
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• 2020

We discuss two unrelated topics regarding Cops and Robbers, a well-known pursuit-evasion game played on a simple graph. First, we address a recent question of Breen et al. and prove the PSPACE-completeness of the cop throttling number, that is, the minimal possible sum of the number k of cops and the number capt(k) of moves that the robber can survive against k cops under the optimal play of both sides. Secondly, we revisit a teleporting version of the game due to Wagner; we disprove one of his conjectures and suggest a new related research problem.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.1667-1690
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• 2018

We consider the minimum order of a graph G with a given lazy cop number $c_L(G)$. Sullivan, Townsend and Werzanski [7] showed that the minimum order of a connected graph with lazy cop number 3 is 9 and $k_3{\square}k_3$ is the unique graph on nine vertices which requires three lazy cops. They conjectured that for a graph G on n vertices with ${\Delta}(G){\geq}n-k^2$, $c_L(G){\leq}k$. We proved that the conjecture is true for k = 4. Furthermore, we showed that the Petersen graph is the unique connected graph G on 10 vertices with ${\Delta}(G){\leq}3$ having lazy cop number 3 and the minimum order of a connected graph with lazy cop number 4 is 16.