Pursuing a fast robber on a graph
Theoretical Computer Science
Cops and Robbers from a distance
Theoretical Computer Science
Cop and Robber Games When the Robber Can Hide and Ride
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Variations on Cops and Robbers
Journal of Graph Theory
On Meyniel's conjecture of the cop number
Journal of Graph Theory
Cops and robbers in a random graph
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
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In this note, we prove that the cop number of any n-vertex graph G, denoted by ${{c}}({{G}})$, is at most ${{O}}\big({{{n}}\over {{\rm lg}} {{n}}}\big)$. Meyniel conjectured ${{c}}({{G}})={{O}}(\sqrt{{{n}}})$. It appears that the best previously known sublinear upper-bound is due to Frankl, who proved ${{c}}({{G}})\leq ({{1}}+ {{o}}({{1}})){{{n}}{{\rm lg}}{{\rm lg}} {{n}}\over {{\rm lg}} {{n}}}$. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 58: 45–48, 2008