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Multipacking and broadcast domination on cactus graph and its impact on hyperbolic graph

Discrete Mathematics 2025-07-15 v5

Abstract

For a graph GG, mp(G) mp(G) is the multipacking number, and γb(G)\gamma_b(G) is the broadcast domination number. It is known that mp(G)γb(G)mp(G)\leq \gamma_b(G) and γb(G)2mp(G)+3\gamma_b(G)\leq 2mp(G)+3 for any graph GG, and it was shown that γb(G)mp(G)\gamma_b(G)-mp(G) can be arbitrarily large for connected graphs. It is conjectured that γb(G)2mp(G)\gamma_b(G)\leq 2mp(G) for any general graph GG. We show that, for any cactus graph GG, γb(G)32mp(G)+112\gamma_b(G)\leq \frac{3}{2}mp(G)+\frac{11}{2}. We also show that γb(G)mp(G)\gamma_b(G)-mp(G) can be arbitrarily large for cactus graphs and asteroidal triple-free graphs by constructing an infinite family of cactus graphs which are also asteroidal triple-free graphs such that the ratio γb(G)/mp(G)=4/3\gamma_b(G)/mp(G)=4/3, with mp(G)mp(G) arbitrarily large. This result shows that, for cactus graphs, the bound γb(G)32mp(G)+112\gamma_b(G)\leq \frac{3}{2}mp(G)+\frac{11}{2} cannot be improved to a bound in the form γb(G)c1mp(G)+c2\gamma_b(G)\leq c_1\cdot mp(G)+c_2, for any constant c1<4/3c_1<4/3 and c2c_2. Moreover, we provide an O(n)O(n)-time algorithm to construct a multipacking of cactus graph GG of size at least 23mp(G)113 \frac{2}{3}mp(G)-\frac{11}{3} , where nn is the number of vertices of the graph GG. The hyperbolicity of the cactus graph class is unbounded. For 00-hyperbolic graphs, mp(G)=γb(G)mp(G)=\gamma_b(G). Moreover, mp(G)=γb(G)mp(G)=\gamma_b(G) holds for the strongly chordal graphs which is a subclass of 12\frac{1}{2}-hyperbolic graphs. Now it's a natural question: what is the minimum value of δ\delta, for which we can say that the difference γb(G)mp(G) \gamma_{b}(G) - mp(G) can be arbitrarily large for δ\delta-hyperbolic graphs? We show that the minimum value of δ\delta is 12\frac{1}{2} using a construction of an infinite family of cactus graphs with hyperbolicity 12\frac{1}{2}.

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@article{arxiv.2308.04882,
  title  = {Multipacking and broadcast domination on cactus graph and its impact on hyperbolic graph},
  author = {Sandip Das and Sk Samim Islam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04882},
  year   = {2025}
}
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