Title
A Symmetric Strategy in Graph Avoidance Games
Abstract
In the graph avoidance game two players alternately color the edges of a graph G in red and in blue respectively. The player who rst creates a monochromatic subgraph isomorphic to a forbidden graph F loses. A symmetric strategy of the second player ensures that, independently of the rst player's strategy, the blue and the red subgraph are isomorphic after every round of the game. We address the class of those graphs G that admit a symmetric strategy for all F and discuss relevant graph-theoretic and complexity issues. We also show examples when, though a symmetric strategy on G generally does not exist, it is still available for a particular F.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2001
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
computational complexity,discrete mathematics
Field
DocType
Volume
Discrete mathematics,Vertex-transitive graph,Line graph,Graph factorization,Foster graph,Symmetric game,Symmetric graph,Butterfly graph,Mathematics,Voltage graph
Journal
cs.DM/0110
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.68
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Harary1907270.87
Wolfgang Slany232949.70
Oleg Verbitsky319127.50