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Biased domination games

Combinatorics 2024-08-02 v1

Abstract

We consider a biased version of Maker-Breaker domination games, which were recently introduced by Gledel, Ir{\v{s}}i{\v{c}}, and Klav{\v{z}}ar. Two players, Dominator and Staller, alternatingly claim vertices of a graph GG where Dominator is allowed to claim up to bb vertices in every round and she wins if and only if she occupies all vertices of a dominating set of GG. For this game, we prove a full characterization of all trees on which Dominator has a winning strategy. For the number of rounds which Dominator needs to win, we give exact results when played on powers of paths or cycles, and for all trees we provide bounds which are optimal up to a constant factor not depending on bb. Furthermore, we discuss general minimum degree conditions and study how many vertices can still be dominated by Dominator even when Staller has a winning strategy.

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@article{arxiv.2408.00529,
  title  = {Biased domination games},
  author = {Ali Deniz Bagdas and Dennis Clemens and Fabian Hamann and Yannick Mogge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00529},
  year   = {2024}
}
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