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math.CO2026

Cops and Robbers: A -homotopy Invariant Variant

Tien Chih, Laura Scull

Cops and Robbers is a pursuit-evasion game played on graphs, of which many variants have been developed and studied. We introduce a variant of this game, "Sneaky-Active Cops and Ro…

math.CO2025

Combinatorics of factorization systems on lattices

Jishnu Bose, Tien Chih, Hannah Housden +4

We initiate the combinatorial study of factorization systems on finite lattices, paying special attention to the role that reflective and coreflective factorization systems play in…

math.CO2020

Fundamental Groupoids for Graphs

Tien Chih, Laura Scull

In this paper, we develop a -homotopy fundamental groupoid for graphs, and show a functorial relationship to the 2-category of graphs. We further explore the fundamental gr…

math.CO2019

A Homotopy Category for Graphs

Tien Chih, Laura Scull

We show that the category of graphs has the structure of a 2-category with homotopy as the 2-cells. We then develop an explicit description of homotopies for finite graphs, in term…

math.CO2018

The Fundamental Morphism Theorem in the Categories of Graphs & Graph Reconstruction

Tien Chih, Demitri Plessas

The Fundamental Morphism Theorem is a categorical version of the First Noether Isomorphism Theorem for categories that do not have kernels or cokernels. We consider two categories…

math.CO2015

Graphs and Their Associated Inverse Semigroups

Tien Chih, Demitri Plessas

Directed graphs have long been used to gain understanding of the structure of semigroups, and recently the structure of directed graph semigroups has been investigated resulting in…