• Title of article

    The complexity of node blocking for dags

  • Author/Authors

    Dariusz Dereniowski، نويسنده , , Dariusz، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    248
  • To page
    256
  • Abstract
    We consider the following modification of annihilation games called node blocking. Given a directed graph, each vertex can be occupied by at most one token. There are two types of tokens, each player can move only tokens of his type. The players alternate their moves and the current player i selects one token of type i and moves the token along a directed edge to an unoccupied vertex. If a player cannot make a move then he loses. We consider the problem of determining the complexity of the game: given an arbitrary configuration of tokens in a planar directed acyclic graph (dag), does the current player have a winning strategy? We prove that the problem is PSPACE-complete.
  • Keywords
    Node blocking , Annihilation game , PSPACE-completeness
  • Journal title
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Serial Year
    2011
  • Journal title
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Record number

    1531564