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A Timecop’s Chase Around the Table

Authors Nils Morawietz, Petra Wolf

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Nils Morawietz
  • Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Petra Wolf
  • Fachbereich 4 Informatikwissenschaften, Universität Trier, Germany

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  • Morawietz, Nils: {Supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), project OPERAH, KO 3669/5-1.}
  • Wolf, Petra: Supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), project FE560/9-1.

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Nils Morawietz and Petra Wolf. A Timecop’s Chase Around the Table. In 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 202, pp. 77:1-77:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.77

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We consider the cops and robbers game variant consisting of one cop and one robber on time-varying graphs (TVG). The considered TVGs are edge periodic graphs, i.e., for each edge, a binary string s_e determines in which time step the edge is present, namely the edge e is present in time step t if and only if the string s_e contains a 1 at position t mod |s_e|. This periodicity allows for a compact representation of an infinite TVG. We prove that even for very simple underlying graphs, i.e., directed and undirected cycles the problem whether a cop-winning strategy exists is NP-hard and W[1]-hard parameterized by the number of vertices. Our second main result are matching lower bounds for the ratio between the length of the underlying cycle and the least common multiple (lcm) of the lengths of binary strings describing edge-periodicies over which the graph is robber-winning. Our third main result improves the previously known EXPTIME upper bound for Periodic Cop & Robber on general edge periodic graphs to PSPACE-membership.

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  • Theory of computation → Problems, reductions and completeness
  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
Keywords
  • Time variable graph
  • Edge periodic cycle
  • Game of cops and robbers
  • Computational complexity

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