Title
A better bound for the cop number of general graphs
Abstract
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
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1002/jgt.v58:1
Journal of Graph Theory
Keywords
Field
DocType
graph
Sublinear function,Graph,Combinatorics,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
1
0364-9024
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
1.02
4
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ehsan Chiniforooshan111816.38