Component games on regular graphs

Rani Hod, Alon Naor

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Abstract

We study the (1:b) Maker-Breaker component game, played on the edge set of a d-regular graph. Maker's aim in this game is to build a large connected component, while Breaker's aim is to prevent him from doing so. For all values of Breaker's bias b, we determine whether Breaker wins (on any d-regular graph) or Maker wins (on almost every d-regular graph) and provide explicit winning strategies for both players. To this end, we prove an extension of a theorem of Gallai, Hasse, Roy and Vitaver about graph orientations without long directed simple paths.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)75-89
Number of pages15
JournalCombinatorics Probability and Computing
Volume23
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes

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