English

The watchman's walk problem on directed graphs

Combinatorics 2020-07-29 v1

Abstract

In a graph, a watchman's walk is a minimum closed dominating walk. Given a graph GG and a single watchman, the length of a watchman's walk in GG (the watchman number) is denoted by w(G)w(G) and the typical goals of the watchman's walk problem is to determine w(G)w(G) and find a watchman's walk in GG. In this paper, we extend the watchman's walk problem to directed graphs. In a directed graph, we say that the watchman can only move to and see the vertices that are adjacent to him relative to outgoing arcs. That is, a watchman's walk is oriented and domination occurs in the direction of the arcs. The directed graphs this paper focuses on are families of tournaments and orientations of complete multipartite graphs. We give bounds on the watchman number and discuss its relationship to variants of the domination number.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.13901,
  title  = {The watchman's walk problem on directed graphs},
  author = {Danny Dyer and Jared Howell and Brittany Pittman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13901},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures

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