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Some new generalizations of Domination using restrictions on degrees of vertices

Combinatorics 2023-05-30 v1

Abstract

A set DD of vertices in a graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E) is a degree restricted dominating set for GG if each vertex viv_i in DD is dominating atmost g(di)g(d_i) vertices of VDV-D, where gg is a function restricting the degree value did_i with respect to the given function value kik_i for a natural valued function ff from the vertex set of the graph. We define three different types of Degree Restricted Domination by varying the way how the restricted function g(vi)g(v_i) is defined. If g(di)=dikig(d_i)=\big\lceil \frac{d_i}{k_i}\big\rceil, the corresponding domination is called the ceil degree restricted domination, in short, CDRDCDRD, and the dominating set obtained in this manner is the CDRDCDRD-set. If g(di)=dikig(d_i)=\big\lfloor\frac{d_i}{k_i}\big\rfloor or g(di)=diki+1g(d_i)=d_i-k_i+1, then the corresponding dominations are respectively called the floor degree restricted domination, in short FDRDFDRD, or the translate degree restricted domination, TDRDTDRD. The dominating sets obtained in this manner are the FDRDFDRD-set and the TDRDTDRD-set respectively. In this paper, we introduce these new generalizations of the domination number in line with the different DRDDRD-sets and study these types of domination for some classes of graphs like complete graphs, caterpillar graphs etc. Degree restricted domination has a vital role in retaining the efficiency of nodes in a network and has many interesting applications.

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@article{arxiv.2305.17514,
  title  = {Some new generalizations of Domination using restrictions on degrees of vertices},
  author = {Shyam S. Kamath and Nithya Muraleedharan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17514},
  year   = {2023}
}

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