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On monopoly and dynamic monopoly of Cartesian product of graphs with constant thresholds

Combinatorics 2017-12-19 v1

Abstract

Let GG be any simple and undirected graph. By a threshold assignment τ\tau in GG we mean any function τ:V(G)N\tau:V(G)\rightarrow \mathbb{N} such that τ(v)dG(v)\tau(v)\leq d_G(v) for any vertex vv of GG. Given a graph GG with a threshold assignment τ\tau, a subset of vertices MM is said to be a τ\tau-monopoly if there exist at least τ(v)\tau(v) neighbors in MM for any vertex vV(G)Mv \in V(G) \setminus M. Similarly, a subset of vertices DD is said to be a τ\tau-dynamic monopoly if starting with the set DD and iteratively adding to the current set further vertices uu that have at least τ(u)\tau(u) neighbors in it, results in the entire vertex set V(G)V(G). Denote by monτ(G)mon_{\tau}(G) (resp. dynτ(G)dyn_{\tau}(G)) the smallest cardinality of a τ\tau-monopoly (resp. τ\tau-dynamic monopoly) of the graph among all others. In this paper we obtain some lower and upper bounds for these two parameters with constant threshold assignments for Cartesian product graphs. Our bounds improve the previous known bounds. We also determine the exact value of these two parameters with fixed thresholds in some Cartesian graph products including cycles and complete graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06483,
  title  = {On monopoly and dynamic monopoly of Cartesian product of graphs with constant thresholds},
  author = {Nahideh Asadi and Manouchehr Zaker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06483},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Accepted for Publication in Ars Combinatoria