3 papers
math.CO2025
Deduction with moves
Andrea C. Burgess, Nancy E. Clarke, Shannon L. Fitzpatrick +1
The deduction game may be thought of as a variant on the classical game of cops and robber in which the cops (searchers) aim to capture an invisible robber (evader); each cop is al…
math.CO2024
Deduction, Constrained Zero Forcing, and Constrained Searching
Andrea Burgess, Danny Dyer, Kerry Ojakian +3
Deduction is a recently introduced graph searching process in which searchers clear the vertex set of a graph with one move each, with each searcher's movement determined by which…
math.CO2024
An introduction to the deduction number
Andrea Burgess, Danny Dyer, Mozhgan Farahani
The deduction game is a variation of the game of cops and robber on graphs in which searchers must capture an invisible evader in at most one move. Searchers know each others' init…