On Maker-Breaker domination game critical graphs
Abstract
The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph by Dominator and Staller who alternate turns selecting an unplayed vertex of . 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 is the number of Dominator's moves in the game played on 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 --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 with and for every edge in . The authors characterized bipartite --critical graphs, and found an example of a non-bipartite --critical graph. In this paper, we characterize the --critical graphs that have a cut-vertex, which are represented by two infinite families. In addition, we prove that is the only non-bipartite, triangle-free --critical graph.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
18 pages, 3 figures