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Maker-Breaker domination game on trees when Staller wins

Combinatorics 2024-02-14 v3

Abstract

In the Maker-Breaker domination game played on a graph GG, Dominator's goal is to select a dominating set and Staller's goal is to claim a closed neighborhood of some vertex. We study the cases when Staller can win the game. If Dominator (resp., Staller) starts the game, then γSMB(G)\gamma_{\rm SMB}(G) (resp., γSMB(G)\gamma_{\rm SMB}'(G)) denotes the minimum number of moves Staller needs to win. For every positive integer kk, trees TT with γSMB(T)=k\gamma_{\rm SMB}'(T)=k are characterized and a general upper bound on γSMB\gamma_{\rm SMB}' is proved. Let S=S(n1,,n)S = S(n_1,\dots, n_\ell) be the subdivided star obtained from the star with \ell edges by subdividing its edges n11,,n1n_1-1, \ldots, n_\ell-1 times, respectively. Then γSMB(S)\gamma_{\rm SMB}'(S) is determined in all the cases except when 4\ell\ge 4 and each nin_i is even. The simplest formula is obtained when there are at least two odd nin_is. If n1n_1 and n2n_2 are the two smallest such numbers, then γSMB(S(n1,,n))=log2(n1+n2+1)\gamma_{\rm SMB}'(S(n_1,\dots, n_\ell))=\lceil \log_2(n_1+n_2+1)\rceil. For caterpillars, exact formulas for γSMB\gamma_{\rm SMB} and for γSMB\gamma_{\rm SMB}' are established.

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@article{arxiv.2212.06530,
  title  = {Maker-Breaker domination game on trees when Staller wins},
  author = {Csilla Bujtás and Pakanun Dokyeesun and Sandi Klavžar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06530},
  year   = {2024}
}