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Eternally surrounding a robber

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arxiv 2408.10452 v3 pith:3IUDMK3K submitted 2024-08-19 math.CO

Eternally surrounding a robber

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keywords graphsproblemcompleterobbersurroundingthenbodyguardbodyguards
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We introduce the bodyguard problem for graphs. This is a variation of Surrounding Cops and Robber but, in this model, a smallest possible group of bodyguards must surround the president and then maintain this protection indefinitely. We investigate some elementary bounds, then solve this problem for the infinite graph families of complete graphs, wheels, trees, cycles, complete multipartite graphs, and two-dimensional grids. We also examine the problem in more general Cartesian, strong, and lexicographic products.

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