@article {IOPORT.06045747, author = {Frieze, Alan and Krivelevich, Michael and Loh, Po-Shen}, title = {Variations on cops and robbers.}, year = {2012}, journal = {Journal of Graph Theory}, volume = {69}, number = {3-4}, issn = {0364-9024}, pages = {383-402}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, New York, NY}, doi = {10.1002/jgt.20591}, abstract = {Summary: We consider several variants of the classical Cops and Robbers game. We treat the version where the robber can move $R\ge 1$ edges at a time, establishing a general upper bound of $n/\alpha^{(1-0(1))}\sqrt {\log_{\alpha}n}$, where $\alpha = 1 + 1/R$, thus generalizing the best known upper bound for the classical case $R = 1$ due to {\it L. Lu} and {\it X. Peng} [``On Meyniel conjecture of the cop number" (submitted)], and {\it A. Scott} and {\it B. Sudakov} [``A new bound for the cops and robbers problem", \url{arXiv:1004.2010}]. We also show that in this case, the cop number of an $n$-vertex graph can be as large as $n^{1 - 1/(R - 2)}$ for finite $R\ge 5$, but linear in $n$ if $R$ is infinite. For $R = 1$, we study the directed graph version of the problem, and show that the cop number of any strongly connected digraph on n vertices is $O(n(\log\log n)^{2}/\log n)$. Our approach is based on expansion.}, identifier = {06045747}, }