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Computation of Grundy dominating sequences in (co-)bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2023-10-17 v1

Abstract

A sequence SS of vertices of a graph GG is called a dominating sequence of GG if (i)(i) each vertex vv of SS dominates a vertex of GG that was not dominated by any of the vertices preceding vertex vv in SS, and (ii)(ii) every vertex of GG is dominated by at least one vertex of SS. The Grundy Domination problem is to find a longest dominating sequence for a given graph GG. It has been known that the decision version of the Grundy Domination problem is NP-complete even when restricted to chordal graphs. In this paper, we prove that the decision version of the Grundy Domination problem is NP-complete for bipartite graphs and co-bipartite graphs. On the positive side, we present a linear-time algorithm that solves the Grundy Domination problem for chain graphs, which form a subclass of bipartite graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2310.10566,
  title  = {Computation of Grundy dominating sequences in (co-)bipartite graphs},
  author = {Boštjan Brešar and Arti Pandey and Gopika Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10566},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures