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Vizing's Conjecture for Almost All Pairs of Graphs

Combinatorics 2015-02-04 v1

Abstract

For any graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E), a subset SVS\subseteq V dominatesdominates GG if all vertices are contained in the closed neighborhood of SS, that is N[S]=VN[S]=V. The minimum cardinality over all such SS is called the domination number, written γ(G)\gamma(G). In 1963, V.G. Vizing conjectured that γ(GH)γ(G)γ(H)\gamma(G \square H) \geq \gamma(G)\gamma(H) where \square stands for the Cartesian product of graphs. In this note, we prove that if Gγ(G)γ(H)\left|G\right|\geq \gamma(G)\gamma(H) and Hγ(G)γ(H)\left|H\right|\geq \gamma(G)\gamma(H), then the conjecture holds. This result quickly implies Vizing's conjecture for almost all pairs of graphs G,HG,H with GH\left|G\right|\geq \left|H\right|, satisfying GqHlogqH\left|G\right|\leq q^{\frac{\left|H\right|}{\log_q\left|H\right|}} for q=11pq=\frac{1}{1-p} and pp the edge probability of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph.

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@article{arxiv.1502.00708,
  title  = {Vizing's Conjecture for Almost All Pairs of Graphs},
  author = {Aziz Contractor and Elliot Krop},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00708},
  year   = {2015}
}

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