Some considerations on the maximal safety distance in a graph

Abstract

The work in this paper is motivated by I. Banič's and A. Taranenko's recent paper, where they introduced a new notion, the span of a graph. Their goal was to solve the problem of keeping a safety distance while two actors are moving through a graph and they present three different types of graph spans, depending on the movement rules. We observe the same goal, but give a different approach to that problem by directly defining the maximal safety distance for different movement rules two actors can take. This allowed us to solve several problems, prove some relations between different graph spans and calculate the span values for some classes of graphs.