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arxiv: 1309.5405 · v2 · pith:TYPNCTRCnew · submitted 2013-09-20 · 🧮 math.CO · cs.CC· cs.DM

Cops and Robbers is EXPTIME-complete

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keywords copsexptime-completecapturecomplexitycomputationalconjectureconjectureddeciding
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We investigate the computational complexity of deciding whether k cops can capture a robber on a graph G. In 1995, Goldstein and Reingold conjectured that the problem is EXPTIME-complete when both G and k are part of the input; we prove this conjecture.

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