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A proof of the 3/5-conjecture in the domination game

Combinatorics 2023-02-03 v2

Abstract

The domination game is an optimization game played by two players, Dominator and Staller, who alternately select vertices in a graph GG. A vertex is said to be dominated if it has been selected or is adjacent to a selected vertex. Each selected vertex must strictly increase the number of dominated vertices at the time of its selection, and the game ends once every vertex in GG is dominated. Dominator aims to keep the game as short as possible, while Staller tries to achieve the opposite. In this article, we prove that for any graph GG on nn vertices, Dominator has a strategy to end the game in at most 3n/53n/5 moves, which was conjectured by Kinnersley, West and Zamani.

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@article{arxiv.2212.04527,
  title  = {A proof of the 3/5-conjecture in the domination game},
  author = {Leo Versteegen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.04527},
  year   = {2023}
}

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30 pages, 6 figures