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Progress towards the two-thirds conjecture on locating-total dominating sets

Combinatorics 2024-08-09 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We study upper bounds on the size of optimum locating-total dominating sets in graphs. A set SS of vertices of a graph GG is a locating-total dominating set if every vertex of GG has a neighbor in SS, and if any two vertices outside SS have distinct neighborhoods within SS. The smallest size of such a set is denoted by γtL(G)\gamma^L_t(G). It has been conjectured that γtL(G)2n3\gamma^L_t(G)\leq\frac{2n}{3} holds for every twin-free graph GG of order nn without isolated vertices. We prove that the conjecture holds for cobipartite graphs, split graphs, block graphs and subcubic graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2211.14178,
  title  = {Progress towards the two-thirds conjecture on locating-total dominating sets},
  author = {Dipayan Chakraborty and Florent Foucaud and Anni Hakanen and Michael A. Henning and Annegret K. Wagler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14178},
  year   = {2024}
}
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