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On Maker-Breaker domination game critical graphs

Combinatorics 2025-07-24 v1

Abstract

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph GG by Dominator and Staller who alternate turns selecting an unplayed vertex of GG. The goal of Dominator is that the vertices he selected during the game form a dominating set while Staller's goal is to prevent this from happening. The graph invariant γMB(G)\gamma_{\rm MB}'(G) is the number of Dominator's moves in the game played on GG in which he can achieve his goal when Staller makes the first move and both players play optimally. In this paper, we continue the investigation of 22-γMB\gamma_{\rm MB}'-critical graphs, initiated in [Divarakan et al., Maker--Breaker domination game critical graphs, Discrete Appl.\ Math. 368 (2025) 126--134], which are defined as the graphs GG with γMB(G)=2\gamma_{\rm MB}'(G)=2 and γMB(Ge)>2\gamma_{\rm MB}'(G-e)>2 for every edge ee in GG. The authors characterized bipartite 22-γMB\gamma_{\rm MB}'-critical graphs, and found an example of a non-bipartite 22-γMB\gamma_{\rm MB}'-critical graph. In this paper, we characterize the 22-γMB\gamma_{\rm MB}'-critical graphs that have a cut-vertex, which are represented by two infinite families. In addition, we prove that C5C_5 is the only non-bipartite, triangle-free 22-γMB\gamma_{\rm MB}'-critical graph.

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@article{arxiv.2507.17646,
  title  = {On Maker-Breaker domination game critical graphs},
  author = {Boštjan Brešar and Tanja Dravec and Kirsti Kuenzel and Douglas F. Rall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17646},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures

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