Maker-Breaker domination game on trees when Staller wins
Abstract
In the Maker-Breaker domination game played on a graph , 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 (resp., ) denotes the minimum number of moves Staller needs to win. For every positive integer , trees with are characterized and a general upper bound on is proved. Let be the subdivided star obtained from the star with edges by subdividing its edges times, respectively. Then is determined in all the cases except when and each is even. The simplest formula is obtained when there are at least two odd s. If and are the two smallest such numbers, then . For caterpillars, exact formulas for and for 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}
}