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Conjecture: Fast-Strategy is PSPACE-complete on bipartite graphs

Prove or refute that Fast-Strategy (given a graph G, a set of guards D ⊆ V(G), and an integer t ≥ 1, decide whether t_G(D) ≤ t) is PSPACE-complete on bipartite graphs.

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Background

The paper shows Fast-Strategy is coNP-hard on bipartite graphs and PSPACE-hard on certain perfect (2-unipolar) graphs. Given that many game-like graph problems tend to be either polynomial-time or PSPACE-hard, the authors conjecture the stronger PSPACE-completeness for bipartite graphs.

Settling this conjecture would pinpoint the precise complexity on bipartite graphs, aligning it with other combinatorial game problems and clarifying the algorithmic limits for this class.

References

Motivated by Theorem~\ref{conp-hard-bipartite}, we propose the following conjecture.

Fast-Strategy is \PSPACE-complete on bipartite graphs.

Fast winning strategies for the attacker in eternal domination (2401.10584 - Bagan et al., 19 Jan 2024) in Conjecture 1, Conclusion