An application of the Gy\'arf\'as path argument

Abstract

We adapt the Gy\'arf\'as path argument to prove that t-2 cops can capture a robber, in at most t-1 moves, in the game of cops and robbers played in a graph that does not contain the t-vertex path as an induced subgraph.

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