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The bondage number of random graphs

Combinatorics 2016-03-31 v2 Probability

Abstract

A dominating set of a graph is a subset DD of its vertices such that every vertex not in DD is adjacent to at least one member of DD. The domination number of a graph GG is the number of vertices in a smallest dominating set of GG. The bondage number of a nonempty graph GG is the size of a smallest set of edges whose removal from GG results in a graph with domination number greater than the domination number of GG. In this note, we study the bondage number of binomial random graph G(n,p)G(n,p). We obtain a lower bound that matches the order of the trivial upper bound. As a side product, we give a one-point concentration result for the domination number of G(n,p)G(n,p) under certain restrictions.

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@article{arxiv.1502.00169,
  title  = {The bondage number of random graphs},
  author = {Dieter Mitsche and Xavier Pérez-Giménez and Pawel Prałat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00169},
  year   = {2016}
}
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