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New Upper Bounds on the Distance Domination Numbers of Grids

Combinatorics 2014-10-16 v1

Abstract

In his 1992 Ph.D. thesis Chang identified an efficient way to dominate m×nm \times n grid graphs and conjectured that his construction gives the most efficient dominating sets for relatively large grids. In 2011 Gon\c{c}alves, Pinlou, Rao, and Thomass\'e proved Chang's conjecture, establishing a closed formula for the domination number of a grid. In March 2013 Fata, Smith and Sundaram established upper bounds for the kk-distance domination numbers of grid graphs by generalizing Chang's construction of dominating sets to kk-distance dominating sets. In this paper we improve the upper bounds established by Fata, Smith, and Sundaram for the kk-distance domination numbers of grids.

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@article{arxiv.1410.4149,
  title  = {New Upper Bounds on the Distance Domination Numbers of Grids},
  author = {Armando Grez and Michael Farina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4149},
  year   = {2014}
}

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12 pages, 9 figures, paper presented at USTARS 2014. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1401.2499 by other authors