Maker-Breaker games on random geometric graphs
Abstract
In a Maker-Breaker game on a graph $G$, Breaker and Maker alternately claim edges of $G$. Maker wins if, after all edges have been claimed, the graph induced by his edges has some desired property. We consider four Maker-Breaker games played on random geometric graphs. For each of our four games we show that if we add edges between $n$ points chosen uniformly at random in the unit square by order of increasing edge-length then, with probability tending to one as $n\to\infty$, the graph becomes Maker-win the very moment it satisfies a simple necessary condition. In particular, with high probability, Maker wins the connectivity game as soon as the minimum degree is at least two; Maker wins the Hamilton cycle game as soon as the minimum degree is at least four; Maker wins the perfect matching game as soon as the minimum degree is at least two and every edge has at least three neighbouring vertices; and Maker wins the $H$-game as soon as there is a subgraph from a finite list of "minimal graphs". These results also allow us to give precise expressions for the limiting probability that $G(n,r)$ is Maker-win in each case, where $G(n,r)$ is the graph on $n$ points chosen uniformly at random on the unit square with an edge between two points if and only if their distance is at most $r$.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2013
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1309.5759
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1309.5759
- Bibcode:
- 2013arXiv1309.5759B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Combinatorics;
- Mathematics - Probability
- E-Print:
- 46 pages, 9 figures