Edge protection in graphs

نویسندگان

  • William Klostermeyer
  • Christina M. Mynhardt
چکیده

We use mobile guards on the vertices of a graph to defend it against an infinite sequence of attacks on its edges. A guard on an incident vertex moves across the attacked edge to defend it; other guards may also move to neighboring vertices. We prove upper and lower bounds on the minimum number of guards needed for this eternal vertex cover problem and characterize the graphs for which the upper bound is sharp.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Australasian J. Combinatorics

دوره 45  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009