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The Maker-Maker domination game in forests

Combinatorics 2023-06-12 v1

Abstract

We study the Maker-Maker version of the domination game introduced in 2018 by Duch\^ene et al. Given a graph, two players alternately claim vertices. The first player to claim a dominating set of the graph wins. As the Maker-Breaker version, this game is PSPACE-complete on split and bipartite graphs. Our main result is a linear time algorithm to solve this game in forests. We also give a characterization of the cycles where the first player has a winning strategy.

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@article{arxiv.2306.05728,
  title  = {The Maker-Maker domination game in forests},
  author = {Eric Duchêne and Arthur Dumas and Nacim Oijid and Aline Parreau and Eric Rémila},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05728},
  year   = {2023}
}
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