collaborators

10 papers

math.CO2026

On the damage number of graphs

Valentin Gledel, William B. Kinnersley, Balázs Patkós +1

We study a variant of Cops and Robbers in which the robber attempts to visit as many vertices of the graph as possible without being captured, while the cop aims to keep the robber…

math.CO2026

Patrolling cop vs omniscient robber

Nina Chiarelli, Paul Dorbec, Miloš Stojaković +1

We study a variant of the classical Cops and Robbers game with one cop and one robber. The cop follows a fixed walk on the graph, called a patrol, that is chosen before the game be…

math.CO2026

On the Multi-Robber Damage Number

Miloš Stojaković, Lasse Wulf

We study a variant of the Cops and Robbers game on graphs in which the robbers damage the visited vertices, aiming to maximize the number of damaged vertices. For that game with on…

cs.CG2026

The Nesting Bird Box Problem is ER-complete: Sharp Hardness Results for the Hidden Set Problem

Lucas Meijer, Till Miltzow, Johanna Ockenfels +1

In the (Nesting) Bird Box Problem we are given a polygonal domain P and a number k and we want to know if there is a set B of k points inside P such that no two points in B can see…

math.CO2026

Rainbow connectivity Maker-Breaker game

Juri Barkey, Bruno Borchardt, Dennis Clemens +3

We study biased Maker-Breaker games on a graph system , in which Maker's goal is to claim certain rainbow structures, i.e., specified subgraphs consisting of at…

cs.DM2026

Positional s-of-k games

Eric Duchêne, Valentin Gledel, Miloš Stojaković

We introduce a general framework for positional games in which players score points by claiming a prescribed portion of each winning set, extending the notion of scoring Maker-Brea…