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Some new results on the total domination polynomial of a graph

Combinatorics 2017-05-03 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 is 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)xiD_t(G,x)=\sum_{i=\gamma_t(G)}^n d_t(G,i)x^i, where dt(G,i)d_t(G,i) is the number of total dominating sets of GG of size ii. A root of Dt(G,x)D_t(G,x) is called a total domination root of GG. An irrelevant edge of Dt(G,x)D_t(G,x) is an edge eEe \in E, such that Dt(G,x)=Dt(Ge,x)D_t(G, x) = D_t(G\setminus e, x). In this paper, we characterize edges possessing this property. Also we obtain some results for the number of total dominating sets of a regular graph. Finally, we study graphs with exactly two total domination roots {3,0}\{-3,0\}, {2,0}\{-2,0\} and {1,0}\{-1,0\}.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00826,
  title  = {Some new results on the total domination polynomial of a graph},
  author = {Saeid Alikhani and Nasrin Jafari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00826},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures