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Complexity of Bondage and Reinforcement

Combinatorics 2011-09-09 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Let G=(V,E)G=(V,E) be a graph. A subset DVD\subseteq V is a dominating set if every vertex not in DD is adjacent to a vertex in DD. A dominating set DD is called a total dominating set if every vertex in DD is adjacent to a vertex in DD. The domination (resp. total domination) number of GG is the smallest cardinality of a dominating (resp. total dominating) set of GG. The bondage (resp. total bondage) number of a nonempty graph GG is the smallest number of edges whose removal from GG results in a graph with larger domination (resp. total domination) number of GG. The reinforcement number of GG is the smallest number of edges whose addition to GG results in a graph with smaller domination number. This paper shows that the decision problems for bondage, total bondage and reinforcement are all NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.1109.1657,
  title  = {Complexity of Bondage and Reinforcement},
  author = {Fu-Tao Hu and Jun-Ming Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1657},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages with 3 figures