Maker-Breaker domination game on Cartesian products of graphs
Abstract
The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph by two players, called Dominator and Staller. They alternately select an unplayed vertex in . Dominator wins the game if he forms a dominating set while Staller wins the game if she claims all vertices from a closed neighborhood of a vertex. The game is called \emph{D-game} if Dominator starts the game and it is an \emph{S-game} when Staller starts the game. If Dominator is the winner in the D-game (or the S-game), then (or ) is defined by the minimum number of moves of Dominator to win the game under any strategy of Staller. Analogously, when Staller is the winner, and can be defined in the same way. We determine the winner of the game on the Cartesian product of paths, stars, and complete bipartite graphs, and how fast the winner wins. We prove that Dominator is the winner on in both the D-game and the S-game, and and are determined when and . Dominator also wins on in both games if and admit nontrivial path covers. Furthermore, we establish the winner in the D-game and the S-game on for every positive integers . We prove the exact formulas for , , , and where is a product of stars.
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@article{arxiv.2310.04103,
title = {Maker-Breaker domination game on Cartesian products of graphs},
author = {Pakanun Dokyeesun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04103},
year = {2024}
}