Generalized Cops and Robbers: A Multi-Player Pursuit Game on Graphs

07/23/2018
by   Athanasios Kehagias, et al.
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We introduce and study the Generalized Cops and Robbers game (GCR), an N-player pursuit game in graphs. The two-player version is essentially equivalent to the classic Cops and Robbers (CR) game. The three-player version can be understood as two CR games played simultaneously on the same graph; a player can be at the same time both pursuer and evader. The same is true for four or more players. We formulate GCR as a discounted stochastic game of perfect information and prove that, for three or more players, it has at least two Nash Equilibria: one in positional deterministic strategies and another in non-positional ones. We also study the capturing properties of GCR Nash Equilibria in connection to the cop-number of a graph. Finally, we briefly discuss GCR as a member of a wider family of multi-player graph pursuit games with rather interesting properties.

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