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On the roots of total domination polynomial of graphs

Combinatorics 2016-05-10 v1

Abstract

Let G=(V,E)G = (V, E) be a simple graph of order nn. The total dominating set of GG is a subset DD of VV that every vertex of VV is adjacent to some vertices of DD. The total domination number of GG is equal to minimum cardinality of total dominating set in GG and denoted by γt(G)\gamma_t(G). The total domination polynomial of GG is the polynomial Dt(G,x)=i=γt(G)ndt(G,i)D_t(G,x)=\sum_{i=\gamma_t(G)}^n d_t(G,i), where dt(G,i)d_t(G,i) is the number of total dominating sets of GG of size ii. In this paper, we study roots of total domination polynomial of some graphs. We show that all roots of Dt(G,x)D_t(G, x) lie in the circle with center (1,0)(-1, 0) and the radius 2n1δ\sqrt[\delta]{2^n-1}, where δ\delta is the minimum degree of GG. As a consequence we prove that if δ2n3\delta\geq \frac{2n}{3}, then every integer root of Dt(G,x)D_t(G, x) lies in the set {3,2,1,0}\{-3,-2,-1,0\}.

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@article{arxiv.1605.02222,
  title  = {On the roots of total domination polynomial of graphs},
  author = {Saeid Alikhani and Nasrin Jafari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.02222},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures