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Twin domination number of Tournaments

Combinatorics 2019-02-20 v3

Abstract

Let D=(V,A)D=(V,A) be a digraph. A subset SS of VV is called a twin dominating set of DD if for every vertex vVSv\in V-S, there exists vertices u1,u2Su_1,u_2 \in S such that (v,u1)(v,u_1) and (u2,v)(u_2,v) are arcs in DD. The minimum cardinality of a twin dominating set in DD is called the twin domination number of DD and is denoted by γ(D)\gamma ^{*}(D). The upper orientable twin domination number of a graph GG is DOM(G)=max{γ(D)D is an orientation of G}.DOM^{*}(G)=\max\{ \gamma ^{*}(D)|D \ \text{is an orientation of G} \}. It has been conjectured that for the complete graph KnK_n with n8n\geq 8, DOM(Kn)=n+12DOM^{*}(K_n)=\left\lceil \frac{n+1}{2}\right\rceil. In this work we prove DOM(K8)=DOM(K9)=4DOM^{*}(K_8)= DOM^{*}(K_9)= 4 and establish new upper bounds for DOM(Kn)DOM^{*}(K_n), disproving the same above conjecture for all n8n \geq 8.

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@article{arxiv.1702.00646,
  title  = {Twin domination number of Tournaments},
  author = {Dorota Osula and Rita Zuazua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00646},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 7 figures