The robber strikes back

We consider the new game of Cops and Attacking Robbers, which is identical to the usual Cops and Robbers game except that if the robber moves to a vertex containing a single cop, then that cop is removed from the game. We study the minimum number of cops needed to capture a robber on a graph G, written cc(G). We give bounds on cc(G) in terms of the cop number of G in the classes of bipartite graphs and diameter two, K 1, m -free graphs.

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