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Some Families of Graphs with Small Power Domination Number

Combinatorics 2021-06-28 v1

Abstract

Let G G be a graph with the vertex set V(G) V(G) and S S be a subset of V(G) V(G) . Let cl(S)cl(S) be the set of vertices built from SS, by iteratively applying the following propagation rule: if a vertex and all of its neighbors except one of them are in cl(S) cl(S) , then the exceptional neighbor is also in cl(S) cl(S) . A set SS is called a zero forcing set of GG if cl(S)=V(G)cl(S)=V(G). The zero forcing number Z(G)Z(G) of GG is the minimum cardinality of a zero forcing set. Let cl(N[S])cl(N[S]) be the set of vertices built from the closed neighborhood N[S]N[S] of SS, by iteratively applying the previous propagation rule. A set SS is called a power dominating set of GG if cl(N[S])=V(G)cl(N[S])=V(G). The power domination number γp(G)\gamma_p (G) of GG is the minimum cardinality of a power dominating set. In this paper, we present some families of graphs that their power domination number is 1 or 2.

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@article{arxiv.2106.13496,
  title  = {Some Families of Graphs with Small Power Domination Number},
  author = {Najibeh Shahbaznejad and Adel P Kazemi and Ignacio M Pelayo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.13496},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures