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Counting the Number of Domatic Partition of a Graph

Combinatorics 2024-07-02 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A subset of vertices SS of a graph GG is a dominating set if every vertex in VSV \setminus S has at least one neighbor in SS. A domatic partition is a partition of the vertices of a graph GG into disjoint dominating sets. The domatic number d(G)d(G) is the maximum size of a domatic partition. Suppose that dp(G,i)dp(G,i) is the number of distinct domatic partition of GG with cardinality ii. In this paper, we consider the generating function of dp(G,i)dp(G,i), i.e., DP(G,x)=i=1d(G)dp(G,i)xiDP(G,x)=\sum_{i=1}^{d(G)}dp(G,i)x^i which we call it the domatic partition polynomial. We explore the domatic polynomial for trees, providing a quadratic time algorithm for its computation based on weak 2-coloring numbers. Our results include specific findings for paths and certain graph products, demonstrating practical applications of our theoretical framework.

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@article{arxiv.2407.00103,
  title  = {Counting the Number of Domatic Partition of a Graph},
  author = {Saeid Alikhani and Davood Bakhshesh and Nima Ghanbari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00103},
  year   = {2024}
}