Alizée Gagnon ; Alexander Hassler ; Jerry Huang ; Aaron Krim-Yee ; Fionn Mc Inerney et al. - A method for eternally dominating strong grids

dmtcs:5162 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, March 16, 2020, vol. 22 no. 1 - https://doi.org/10.23638/DMTCS-22-1-8
A method for eternally dominating strong gridsArticle

Authors: Alizée Gagnon 1; Alexander Hassler 2; Jerry Huang 3; Aaron Krim-Yee 4; Fionn Mc Inerney ORCID5; Andrés Zacarías 6; Ben Seamone ORCID7,1; Virgélot Virgile 8

In the eternal domination game, an attacker attacks a vertex at each turn and a team of guards must move a guard to the attacked vertex to defend it. The guards may only move to adjacent vertices and no more than one guard may occupy a vertex. The goal is to determine the eternal domination number of a graph which is the minimum number of guards required to defend the graph against an infinite sequence of attacks. In this paper, we continue the study of the eternal domination game on strong grids. Cartesian grids have been vastly studied with tight bounds for small grids such as 2×n, 3×n, 4×n, and 5×n grids, and recently it was proven in [Lamprou et al., CIAC 2017, 393-404] that the eternal domination number of these grids in general is within O(m + n) of their domination number which lower bounds the eternal domination number. Recently, Finbow et al. proved that the eternal domination number of strong grids is upper bounded by mn 6 + O(m + n). We adapt the techniques of [Lamprou et al., CIAC 2017, 393-404] to prove that the eternal domination number of strong grids is upper bounded by mn 7 + O(m + n). While this does not improve upon a recently announced bound of ⎡m/3⎤ x⎡n/3⎤ + O(m √ n) [Mc Inerney, Nisse, Pérennes, HAL archives, 2018; Mc Inerney, Nisse, Pérennes, CIAC 2019] in the general case, we show that our bound is an improvement in the case where the smaller of the two dimensions is at most 6179.


Volume: vol. 22 no. 1
Section: Graph Theory
Published on: March 16, 2020
Accepted on: February 12, 2020
Submitted on: February 4, 2019
Keywords: Graphs,Graph Protection,Eternal Domination,Combinatorial Games,[INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM],[MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]

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