A Symmetric Strategy in Graph Avoidance Games

dc.creatorHarary, Frank
dc.creatorSlany, Wolfgang
dc.creatorVerbitsky, Oleg
dc.date2001-10-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:17:50Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:17:50Z
dc.descriptionIn the graph avoidance game two players alternatingly color edges of a graph G in red and in blue respectively. The player who first creates a monochromatic subgraph isomorphic to a forbidden graph F loses. A symmetric strategy of the second player ensures that, independently of the first 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.
dc.description14 pages, 6 figures; for a video of a talk based on a preliminary version see http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2000/gametheory/slany/1/index.html For related material see http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/proj/ramsey/
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0110049
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0110049
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30873
dc.subjectDiscrete Mathematics
dc.subjectComputational Complexity
dc.subjectF.1.3; G.2.1; G.2.2
dc.titleA Symmetric Strategy in Graph Avoidance Games
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