An application of the Gyárfás path argument

03/04/2019
by   Vaidy Sivaraman, et al.
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We adapt the Gyárfás path argument to prove that t-2 cops can capture a robber, in at most t-1 moves, in the game of cops and robbers played in a graph that does not contain the t-vertex path as an induced subgraph.

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