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On The Double Roman bondage numbers of Graphs

Combinatorics 2019-05-17 v1

Abstract

For a graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E), a double roman dominating function (DRDF) is a function f:V{0,1,2,3}f : V \longrightarrow \{0, 1, 2,3\} having the property that if f(v)=0f(v)=0 for some vertex vv, then vv has at least two neighbors assigned 22 under ff or one neighbor ww with f(w)=3f(w)=3, and if f(v)=1f(v)=1 then vv has at least one neighbor ww with f(w)2f(w) \geq 2. The weight of a DRDF ff is the sum f(V)=uVf(u)f (V) =\sum_{u\in V} f (u). The minimum weight of a DRDF on a graph GG is the double Roman domination number of GG and is denoted by γdR(G)\gamma_{dR}(G). The double roman bondage number of GG, denoted by bdR(G)b_{dR}(G), is the minimum cardinality among all edge subsets BE(G)B \subseteq E(G) such that γdR(GB)>γdR(G)\gamma_{dR}(G-B) > \gamma_{dR}(G). In this paper we study the double roman bondage number in graphs. We determine the double roman bondage number in several families of graphs, and present several bounds for the double roman bondage number. We also study the complexity issue of the double roman bondage number and prove that the decision problem for the double roman bondage number is NP-hard even when restricted to bipartite graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1905.06724,
  title  = {On The Double Roman bondage numbers of Graphs},
  author = {N. Jafari Rad and H. R. Maimani and M. Momeni and F. Rahimi Mahid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06724},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure