A note on deterministic zombies

08/08/2020

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by   Valentin Bartier, et al.

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"Zombies and Survivor" is a variant of the well-studied game of "Cops and Robber" where the zombies (cops) can only move closer to the survivor (robber). We consider the deterministic version of the game where a zombie can choose their path if multiple options are available. The zombie number, like the cop number, of a graph is the minimum number of zombies, or cops, required to capture the survivor. In this short note, we solve a question by Fitzpatrick et al., proving that the zombie number of the Cartesian product of two graphs is at most the sum of their zombie numbers. We also give a simple graph family with cop number 2 and an arbitrarily large zombie number.