Alexander Clifton

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2since 2021 · last 2026
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Theory of computation · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
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2026 Trail Trap: A variant of Partizan Edge Geography
abstract
We study a two-player game played on undirected graphs called Trail Trap , which is a variant of a game known as Partizan Edge Geography . One player starts by choosing any edge and moving a token from one endpoint to the other; the other player then chooses a different edge and does the same. Alternating turns, each player moves their token along an unused edge from its current vertex to an adjacent vertex, until one player cannot move and loses. We present an algorithm to determine which player has a winning strategy when the graph is a tree and partially characterize the trees on which a given player wins. Additionally, we show that it is NP-hard to determine if Player 2 has a winning strategy on Trail Trap from the starting position, even for connected bipartite planar graphs with maximum degree 4. We determine which player has a winning strategy for certain subclasses of complete bipartite graphs and grid graphs, and we propose several open problems for further study.
Calum Buchanan, MacKenzie Carr, Alexander Clifton, Stephen G. Hartke, Vesna Irsic Chenoweth, Nicholas Sieger, Rebecca Whitman
Discret. Appl. Math.3
2025 Rainbow separating path systems
abstract
We introduce a rainbow variant of separating path systems. For up to four colors, we investigate the minimum size of such a separating system for various graph classes such as paths, cycles, and trees. Furthermore, we analyze the behavior for any number of colors, establishing bounds for a wide class including complete graphs and Erdős-Rényi random graphs.
Alexander Clifton, George Kontogeorgiou, S. Taruni, Ana Laura Trujillo-Negrete
LAGOS1