The graph grabbing game on blow-ups of trees and cycles

Abstract

The graph grabbing game is played on a non-negatively weighted connected graph by Alice and Bob who alternately claim a non-cut vertex from the remaining graph, where Alice plays first, to maximize the weights on their respective claimed vertices at the end of the game when all vertices have been claimed. Seacrest and Seacrest conjectured that Alice can secure at least half of the weight of every weighted connected bipartite even graph. Later, Egawa, Enomoto and Matsumoto partially confirmed this conjecture by showing that Alice wins the game on a class of weighted connected bipartite even graphs called $K_{m,n}$-trees. We extend the result on this class to include a number of graphs, e.g. even blow-ups of trees and cycles.