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Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. A subset $S \subseteq V$ is called a global dominating set of $G$, if it serves as a dominating set in both $G$ and its complement $\overline{G}$. We define two disjoint subsets $V_1,V_2 \subseteq V$ to form a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Nazli Besharati , Doost Ali Mojdeh , Mohammad Reza Samadzadeh

The alliance polynomial of a graph $G$ with order $n$ and maximum degree $\Delta$ is the polynomial $A(G; x) = \sum_{k=-\Delta}^{\Delta} A_{k}(G) \, x^{n+k}$, where $A_{k}(G)$ is the number of exact defensive $k$-alliances in $G$. We obtain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Walter Carballosa , José M. Rodríguez , José M. Sigarreta , Yadira Torres-Nuñez

Signed graphs have been introduced to enrich graph structures expressing relationships between persons or general social entities, introducing edge signs to reflect the nature of the relationship, e.g., friendship or enmity. Independently,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhidan Feng , Henning Fernau , Kevin Mann , Xingqin Qi

Let $G=$ $\left( V,E\right) $ be a simple graph.\ A non-empty set $S \subseteq V$ is called a global offensive alliance if $S$ is a dominating set and for every vertex $v$ in $V-S$, at least half of the vertices from the closed neighborhood…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Mohamed Bouzefrane , Isma Bouchemakh , Mohamed Zamime , Noureddine Ikhlef-Eschouf

A subset $D\subseteq V(G)$ is called a $k$-distance dominating set of $G$ if every vertex in $V(G)\setminus D$ is within distance $k$ from some vertex of $D$. The minimum cardinality among all $k$-distance dominating sets of $G$ is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-04 D. A. Mojdeh , S. R. Musawi , E. Nazari

The alliance polynomial of a graph $\Gamma$ with order $n$ and maximum degree $\delta_1$ is the polynomial $A(\Gamma; x) = \sum_{k=-\delta_1}^{\delta_1} A_{k}(\Gamma) \, x^{n+k}$, where $A_{k}(\Gamma)$ is the number of exact defensive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Walter Carballosa , José M. Rodríguez , José M. Sigarreta , Yadira Torres-Nuñez

$k$-defensive domination, a variant of the classical domination problem on graphs, seeks a minimum cardinality vertex set providing a surjective defense against any attack on vertices of cardinality bounded by a parameter $k$. The problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Tınaz Ekim , Arthur Farley , Andrzej Proskurowski , Mordechai Shalom

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple graph. A dominating set of $G$ is a subset $D\subseteq V$ such that every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$. The cardinality of a smallest dominating set of $G$, denoted by $\gamma(G)$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Nima Ghanbari

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a dominating set if every vertex of $V(G) \setminus S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. A coalition in $G$ consists of two disjoint sets of vertices $X$ and $Y$ of $G$, neither of which is a dominating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Davood Bakhshesh , Michael A. Henning

A set of vertices in a graph is agile if, however we partition the set into two parts, we can always find two vertex-disjoint connected subgraphs where one covers the first and the other the second part. We present a characterization for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Christian Elbracht , Jay Lilian Kneip , Maximilian Teegen

Eternal domination is a dynamic process by which a graph is protected from an infinite sequence of vertex intrusions. In eternal distance-$k$ domination, guards initially occupy the vertices of a distance-$k$ dominating set. After a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Danielle Cox , Erin Meger , M. E. Messinger

A sequence of vertices $(v_1,\, \dots , \,v_k)$ of a graph $G$ is called a {\it dominating closed neighborhood sequence} if $\{v_1,\, \dots , \,v_k\}$ is a dominating set of $G$ and $N[v_i]\nsubseteq \cup _{j=1}^{i-1} N[v_j]$ for every $i$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Aysel Erey

The $k$-dominating graph $D_k(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined on the vertex set consisting of dominating sets of $G$ with cardinality at most $k$, two such sets being adjacent if they differ by either adding or deleting a single vertex. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Saeid Alikhani , Davood Fatehi , Sandi Klavžar

For a graph $G$ and integer $k\geq1$, we define the token graph $F_k(G)$ to be the graph with vertex set all $k$-subsets of $V(G)$, where two vertices are adjacent in $F_k(G)$ whenever their symmetric difference is a pair of adjacent…

A coalition in a graph $G$ with vertex set $V$ consists of two disjoint sets $V_1, V_2\subset V$ such that neither $V_1$ nor $V_2$ is a dominating set, but the union $V_1\cup V_2$ is a dominating set in $G$. A partition of graph vertices is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Andrey A. Dobrynin , Hamidreza Golmohammadi

A graph is an efficient open domination graph if there exists a subset of vertices whose open neighborhoods partition its vertex set. We characterize those graphs $G$ for which the Cartesian product $G \Box H$ is an efficient open…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Tadeja Kraner Šumenjak , Iztok Peterin , Douglas F. Rall , Aleksandra Tepeh

An edge coalition in a graph $G=(V,E)$ consists of two disjoint sets of edges $E_1$ and $E_2$, neither of which is an edge dominating set but whose union $E_1\cup E_2$ is an edge dominating set. An edge coalition partition in a graph $G$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Doost Ali Mojdeh , Iman Masoumi

An internal or friendly partition of a vertex set $V(G)$ of a graph $G$ is a partition to two nonempty sets $A\cup B$ such that every vertex has at least as many neighbours in its own class as in the other one. Motivated by Diwan's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

A dominating set of a graph $G$ is a set $S \subseteq V(G)$ such that every vertex in $V(G) \setminus S$ has a neighbor in $S$, where two vertices are neighbors if they are adjacent. A secure dominating set of $G$ is a dominating set $S$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Uttam K. Gupta , Michael A. Henning , Paras Vinubhai Maniya , Dinabandhu Pradhan

Deep learning models on graphs have achieved remarkable performance in various graph analysis tasks, e.g., node classification, link prediction, and graph clustering. However, they expose uncertainty and unreliability against the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Liang Chen , Jintang Li , Jiaying Peng , Tao Xie , Zengxu Cao , Kun Xu , Xiangnan He , Zibin Zheng , Bingzhe Wu