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The bondage number of chordal graphs

Combinatorics 2022-03-18 v1

Abstract

A set SV(G)S\subseteq V(G) of a graph GG is a dominating set if each vertex has a neighbor in SS or belongs to SS. Let γ(G)\gamma(G) be the cardinality of a minimum dominating set in GG. The bondage number b(G)b(G) of a graph GG is the smallest cardinality of a set edges AE(G)A\subseteq E(G) such that γ(GA)=γ(G)+1\gamma(G-A)=\gamma(G)+1. A chordal graph is a graph with no induced cycle of length four or more. In this paper, we prove that the bondage number of a chordal graph GG is at most the order of its maximum clique, that is, b(G)ω(G)b(G)\leq \omega(G). We show that this bound is best possible.

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@article{arxiv.2203.09256,
  title  = {The bondage number of chordal graphs},
  author = {Valentin Bouquet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09256},
  year   = {2022}
}