Seeing is not believing in limited visibility cops and robbers

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Main Authors: Bašić, Bojan, Davies, Alfie, Džuklevski, Aleksa, Gvozdić, Strahinja, Mogge, Yannick
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Published: 2025
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author Bašić, Bojan
Davies, Alfie
Džuklevski, Aleksa
Gvozdić, Strahinja
Mogge, Yannick
author_facet Bašić, Bojan
Davies, Alfie
Džuklevski, Aleksa
Gvozdić, Strahinja
Mogge, Yannick
contents We consider the model of limited visibility Cops and Robbers, where the cops can only see within their $l$-neighbourhood. We prove that the number of cops needed to see the robber can be arbitrarily smaller than the number needed to capture the robber, answering an open question from the literature. We then consider how close we can get to seeing the robber when we do not have enough cops, along with a probabilistic interpretation.
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spellingShingle Seeing is not believing in limited visibility cops and robbers
Bašić, Bojan
Davies, Alfie
Džuklevski, Aleksa
Gvozdić, Strahinja
Mogge, Yannick
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
49N75
We consider the model of limited visibility Cops and Robbers, where the cops can only see within their $l$-neighbourhood. We prove that the number of cops needed to see the robber can be arbitrarily smaller than the number needed to capture the robber, answering an open question from the literature. We then consider how close we can get to seeing the robber when we do not have enough cops, along with a probabilistic interpretation.
title Seeing is not believing in limited visibility cops and robbers
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
49N75
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00941