% ── Foundational papers (cops-and-robbers) ──────────────────────────────────

@article{NowakowskiWinkler,
  author  = {Nowakowski, R. and Winkler, P.},
  title   = {Vertex-to-vertex pursuit in a graph},
  journal = {Discrete Mathematics},
  volume  = {43},
  year    = {1983},
  pages   = {235--239},
}

@phdthesis{Quilliot,
  author = {Quilliot, A.},
  title  = {Jeux et points fixes sur les graphes},
  school = {Universit\'e de Paris VI},
  type   = {Th\`ese de 3\`eme cycle},
  year   = {1978},
}

@article{AignerFromme,
  author  = {Aigner, M. and Fromme, M.},
  title   = {A game of cops and robbers},
  journal = {Discrete Applied Mathematics},
  volume  = {8},
  number  = {1},
  year    = {1984},
  pages   = {1--12},
}

% ── Meyniel's conjecture: bounds and partial progress ───────────────────────

@article{Frankl,
  author  = {Frankl, P.},
  title   = {Cops and robbers in graphs with large girth and {Cayley} graphs},
  journal = {Discrete Applied Mathematics},
  volume  = {17},
  year    = {1987},
  pages   = {301--305},
}

@article{LuPeng,
  author  = {Lu, L. and Peng, X.},
  title   = {On {Meyniel}'s conjecture of the cop number},
  journal = {Journal of Graph Theory},
  volume  = {71},
  number  = {2},
  year    = {2012},
  pages   = {192--205},
}

@article{ScottSudakov,
  author  = {Scott, A. and Sudakov, B.},
  title   = {A bound for the cops and robbers problem},
  journal = {SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics},
  volume  = {25},
  number  = {3},
  year    = {2011},
  pages   = {1438--1442},
}

@article{FriezeKrivelevichLoh,
  author  = {Frieze, A. and Krivelevich, M. and Loh, P.-S.},
  title   = {Variations on cops and robbers},
  journal = {Journal of Graph Theory},
  volume  = {69},
  number  = {4},
  year    = {2012},
  pages   = {383--402},
}

@article{PralatWormald,
  author  = {Pra{\l}at, P. and Wormald, N.},
  title   = {{Meyniel}'s conjecture holds for random graphs},
  journal = {Random Structures \& Algorithms},
  volume  = {48},
  number  = {2},
  year    = {2016},
  pages   = {396--421},
}

@article{BradshawHosseiniMoharStacho,
  author  = {Bradshaw, P. and Hosseini, S. A. and Mohar, B. and Stacho, L.},
  title   = {On the cop number of graphs of high girth},
  journal = {Journal of Graph Theory},
  year    = {2023},
}

@article{HMG,
  author  = {Hosseini, S. A. and Mohar, B. and {Gonzalez Hermosillo de la Maza}, S.},
  title   = {{Meyniel}'s conjecture on graphs of bounded degree},
  journal = {Journal of Graph Theory},
  volume  = {97},
  year    = {2021},
  pages   = {401--407},
}