Cops and robbers on chess graphs

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Autori principali: Ambrose, Sally, Angelone, Evan, Chen, Jacob, Ma, Daniel, Miguel, Arturo Ortiz San, Watanabe, Wraven, Whitcomb, Stephen, Wu, Shanghao
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Ambrose, Sally
Angelone, Evan
Chen, Jacob
Ma, Daniel
Miguel, Arturo Ortiz San
Watanabe, Wraven
Whitcomb, Stephen
Wu, Shanghao
author_facet Ambrose, Sally
Angelone, Evan
Chen, Jacob
Ma, Daniel
Miguel, Arturo Ortiz San
Watanabe, Wraven
Whitcomb, Stephen
Wu, Shanghao
contents Cops and robbers is a pursuit-evasion game played on graphs. We completely classify the cop numbers for $n \times n$ knight graphs and queen graphs. This completes the classification of the cop numbers for all $n \times n$ classical chess graphs. As a corollary, we resolve an open problem about the monotonicity of $c$($\mathcal{Q}_n$). Moreover, we introduce \emph{royal graphs}, a generalization of chess graphs for arbitrary piece movements, which models real-life movement constraints. We give results on the cop numbers for these families.
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spellingShingle Cops and robbers on chess graphs
Ambrose, Sally
Angelone, Evan
Chen, Jacob
Ma, Daniel
Miguel, Arturo Ortiz San
Watanabe, Wraven
Whitcomb, Stephen
Wu, Shanghao
Combinatorics
2020 MSC 49N75 (Primary), 05C57, 91A24 (Secondary)
Cops and robbers is a pursuit-evasion game played on graphs. We completely classify the cop numbers for $n \times n$ knight graphs and queen graphs. This completes the classification of the cop numbers for all $n \times n$ classical chess graphs. As a corollary, we resolve an open problem about the monotonicity of $c$($\mathcal{Q}_n$). Moreover, we introduce \emph{royal graphs}, a generalization of chess graphs for arbitrary piece movements, which models real-life movement constraints. We give results on the cop numbers for these families.
title Cops and robbers on chess graphs
topic Combinatorics
2020 MSC 49N75 (Primary), 05C57, 91A24 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18516