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Coalition graphs of connected domination partitions in subcubic graphs

Combinatorics 2025-09-05 v1

Abstract

A graph is subcubic if it is connected and its maximum vertex degree does not exceed 3. Two disjoint vertex subsets of a graph GG form a connected coalition in GG if neither of them is a connected dominating set but their union is a connected dominating set. A connected coalition partition of GG is a partition of its vertices π(G)={V1,V2,...,Vk}\pi(G) = \{V_1, V_2,..., V_k \}, such that each ViV_i is either a connected dominating set consisting of a single vertex or forms a coalition with some set of π(G)\pi(G). The formation of connected coalitions is described by a coalition graph whose vertices correspond to the sets of π\pi, and two vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding sets form a coalition in GG. We characterize all coalition graphs of subcubic graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2509.04204,
  title  = {Coalition graphs of connected domination partitions in subcubic graphs},
  author = {Andrey A. Dobrynin and Aleksey N. Glebov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04204},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables