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On the boundary as an $x$-geodominating set in graphs

Combinatorics 2013-11-18 v1

Abstract

Given a graph GG and a vertex xV(G)x\in V(G), a vertex set SV(G)S \subseteq V(G) is an xx-geodominating set of GG if each vertex vV(G)v\in V(G) lies on an xyx-y geodesic for some element ySy\in S. The minimum cardinality of an xx-geodominating set of GG is defined as the xx-geodomination number of GG, gx(G)g_x(G), and an xx-geodominating set of cardinality gx(G)g_x(G) is called a gxg_x-set and it is known that it is unique for each vertex xx. We prove that, in any graph GG, the gxg_x-set associated to a vertex xx is the set of boundary vertices of xx, that is (x)={vV(G):wN(v):d(x,w)d(u,v)}\partial(x)= \{v \in V(G) : \forall w \in N(v): d(x,w) \leq d(u, v)\}. This characterization of gxg_x-sets allows to deduce, on a easy way, different properties of these sets and also to compute both gxg_x-sets and xx-geodomination number gx(G)g_x(G), in graphs obtained using different graphs products: cartesian, strong and lexicographic.

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@article{arxiv.1311.3804,
  title  = {On the boundary as an $x$-geodominating set in graphs},
  author = {J. Cáceres and M. Morales and M. L. Puertas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3804},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 5 figues