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Characterizing extremal graphs for open neighbourhood location-domination

Combinatorics 2022-01-25 v2

Abstract

An open neighbourhood locating-dominating set is a set SS of vertices of a graph GG such that each vertex of GG has a neighbour in SS, and for any two vertices u,vu,v of GG, there is at least one vertex in SS that is a neighbour of exactly one of uu and vv. We characterize those graphs whose only open neighbourhood locating-dominating set is the whole set of vertices. More precisely, we prove that these graphs are exactly the graphs all whose connected components are half-graphs (a half-graph is a special bipartite graph with both parts of the same size, where each part can be ordered so that the open neighbourhoods of consecutive vertices differ by exactly one vertex). This corrects a wrong characterization from the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05322,
  title  = {Characterizing extremal graphs for open neighbourhood location-domination},
  author = {Florent Foucaud and Narges Ghareghani and Aida Roshany-Tabrizi and Pouyeh Sharifani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05322},
  year   = {2022}
}