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How will the wolf catch the sheep in minimum time?

In $\mathbb{R}^2$, a wolf is trying to catch two sheep. At time $0$ the wolf's at $(0,0)$ and the sheep are at $(1,0)$. The animals are moving continuously and react instantaneously according to each ...
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Pursuit-evasion game with n pursuers and one evader

Assume $n$ pursuers ($P_i$) at the vertices of an $n$ sided regular polygon with the evader ($E$) at the centre. For what all $n$ can be the evader be caught? Pursuers and evader have same speed ...
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Escaping from a circle of fat lions.

You are surrounded, by X fat lions equally spaced around a circle of radius 200 meters in an open field. While making your escape plan you note several things: they are slow, they can only travel at ...
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