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Majority out-dominating functions in digraphs

Combinatorics 2013-11-05 v1

Abstract

At least two different notions have been published under the name "majority domination in graphs": Majority dominating functions and majority dominating sets. In this work we extend the former concept to digraphs. Given a digraph D=(V,A),D=(V,A), a function f:V{1,1}f : V \rightarrow \{-1,1\} such that f(N+[v])1f(N^+[v])\geq1 for at least half of the vertices vv in VV is a majority out-dominating function (MODF) of D.D. The weight of a MODF ff is w(f)=vVf(v),w(f)=\sum\limits_{v\in V}f(v), and the minimum weight of a MODF in DD is the majority out-domination number of D,D, denoted γmaj+(D).\gamma^+_{maj}(D). In this work we introduce these concepts and prove some results regarding them, among which the fact that the decision problem of finding a majority out-dominating function of a given weight is NP-complete.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0475,
  title  = {Majority out-dominating functions in digraphs},
  author = {Martín Manrique and Karam Ebadi and Akbar Azami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0475},
  year   = {2013}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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