String Graph with Cop Number 4 (Poster Abstract)

Authors Stephane Durocher, Myroslav Kryven , Maarten Löffler



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Stephane Durocher
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Myroslav Kryven
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Maarten Löffler
  • Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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Stephane Durocher, Myroslav Kryven, and Maarten Löffler. String Graph with Cop Number 4 (Poster Abstract). In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 53:1-53:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2024.53

Abstract

Cops and Robbers is a well-studied pursuit-evasion game in which a set of cops seeks to catch a robber in a graph G, where cops and the robber move along edges of G. The cop number of G is the minimum number of cops that is sufficient to catch the robber. The game of Cops and Robbers has been well-studied on beyond-planar graphs (that is, graphs that can be drawn with only few crossings) [M. Aigner and M. Fromme, 1984; Durocher et al., 2023] as well as intersection graphs (that is, graphs where the vertices represent geometric objects, and an edge exists between two vertices if the corresponding objects intersect). We consider a well-known subclass of intersection graphs called string graphs where the objects are curves. So far no string graph with cop number larger than three was known. We construct the first string graph with cop number four, which improves the previous bound and answers an open question by Gavenčiak et al. [Tomáš Gavenčiak et al., 2018].

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  • Theory of computation → Graph algorithms analysis
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  • point set embedding
  • upward planar path embedding
  • dynamic programming

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