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We introduce a new two-player game on graphs, in which players alternate choosing vertices until the set of chosen vertices forms a dominating set. The last player to choose a vertex is the winner. The game fits into the scheme of several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Sean Fiscus , Glenn Hurlbert , Eric Myzelev , Travis Pence

The connected domination game is a variation of the domination game where the played vertices must form a connected subgraph at all stages of the game. In this paper we prove that deciding whether the game connected domination number is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Vesna Iršič Chenoweth

The domatic game with pallete size $k$ is a $2$-player game played on a graph $G$ recently introduced by Hartnell and Rall. Players Alice and Bob take turns choosing an uncolored vertex from $G$, and coloring it a color from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Sean English , London Swan

We study Maker--Breaker total domination game played by two players, Dominator and Staller, on the connected cubic graphs. Staller (playing the role of Maker) wins if she manages to claim an open neighbourhood of a vertex. Dominator wins…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jovana Forcan , Mirjana Mikalački

The \emph{domination subdivision number} sd$(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (where an edge can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the domination number of $G$. It has been shown…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Magda Dettlaff , Joanna Raczek , Jerzy Topp

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by Dominator and Staller who alternate turns selecting an unplayed vertex of $G$. The goal of Dominator is that the vertices he selected during the game form a dominating set while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Boštjan Brešar , Tanja Dravec , Kirsti Kuenzel , Douglas F. Rall

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a dominating set if every vertex of $G$ is in $S$ or is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. If, in addition, $S$ is an independent set, then $S$ is an independent dominating set. The domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski , Aleksandra Tepeh

For $S\subseteq V(G)$, we define $\bar{S}=V(G)\setminus S$. A set $S\subseteq V(G)$ is called a super dominating set if for every vertex $u\in \bar{S}$, there exists $v\in S$ such that $N(v)\cap \bar{S}=\{u\}$. The super domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Wei Zhuang

Mobile guards on the vertices of a graph are used to defend the graph against an infinite sequence of attacks on vertices. A guard must move from a neighboring vertex to an attacked vertex (we assume attacks happen only at vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 William F. Klostermeyer , Gary MacGillivray

In the m-\emph{Eternal Domination} game, a team of guard tokens initially occupies a dominating set on a graph $G$. An attacker then picks a vertex without a guard on it and attacks it. The guards defend against the attack: one of them has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Ioannis Lamprou , Russell Martin , Sven Schewe

Given a simple, finite, nonempty graph $G=(V(G),E(G))$, a vertex subset $D\subseteq V(G)$ is said to be a dominating set if every vertex $v\in V(G)-D$ is adjacent to a vertex in $D$. The independent domination number $\gamma_i(G)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Andrew Pham

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a total dominating set of $G$ if every vertex is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. The total domination number $\gamma_t(G)$ is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set of $G$. The total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Michael A. Henning , Jerzy Topp

A set $D$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a dominating set of $G$ if every vertex in $V_G-D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$. The domination number (upper domination number, respectively) of a graph $G$, denoted by $\gamma(G)$…

A set of vertices $W$ in a connected graph $G$ is called a Steiner dominating set if $W$ is both Steiner and dominating set. The Steiner domination number $\gamma_{st}(G)$ is the minimum cardinality of a Steiner dominating set of $G$. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Yueming Shen , Chengye Zhao , Chenglin Gao , Yunfang Tang

The Maker-Breaker total domination number, $\gamma_{\rm MBT}(G)$, of a graph $G$ is introduced as the minimum number of moves of Dominator to win the Maker-Breaker total domination game, provided that he has a winning strategy and is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Athira Divakaran , Tijo James , Sandi Klavžar , Latha S Nair

For a tree T on n vertices, we study the Maker-Breaker game, played on the edge set of the complete graph on n vertices, which Maker wins as soon as the graph she builds contains a copy of T. We prove that if T has bounded maximum degree,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Dennis Clemens , Asaf Ferber , Roman Glebov , Dan Hefetz , Anita Liebenau

In a graph G, a vertex dominates itself and its neighbors. A subset S of V is called a dominating set in G if every vertex in V is dominated by at least one vertex in S. The domination number gamma G is the minimum cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-18 S. Mehry , R. Safakish

A graph $G = (V,E)$ is said to be saturated with respect to a monotone increasing graph property ${\mathcal P}$, if $G \notin {\mathcal P}$ but $G \cup \{e\} \in {\mathcal P}$ for every $e \in \binom{V}{2} \setminus E$. The saturation game…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich , Alon Naor , Miloš Stojaković

We study the m-eternal domination problem from the perspective of the attacker. For many graph classes, the minimum required number of guards to defend eternally is known. By definition, if the defender has less than the required number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Václav Blažej , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Tomáš Valla

The domination multisubdivision number of a nonempty graph $G$ was defined as the minimum positive integer $k$ such that there exists an edge which must be subdivided $k$ times to increase the domination number of $G$. Similarly we define…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Diana Avella-Alaminos , Magda Dettlaff , Magdalena Lemańska , Rita Zuazua