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Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. For some $\alpha$ with $0<\alpha \leq 1$, a subset $S$ of $V$ is said to be a $\alpha$-partial dominating set if $|N[S]|\geq \alpha |V|$. The size of a smallest such $S$ is called the $\alpha$-partial domination…

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Let $G=(V(G),E(G))$ be a graph and $H=(V(H),E(H))$ be a hypergraph. The hypergraph $H$ is a {\it Berge-G} if there is a bijection $f : E(G) \mapsto E(H)$ such that for each $e \in E(G)$ we have $e \subseteq f(e)$. We define {\it dilations…

Given a graph $G$, a total dominating set $D_t$ is a vertex set that every vertex of $G$ is adjacent to some vertices of $D_t$ and let $d_t(G,i)$ be the number of all total dominating sets with size $i$. The total domination polynomial,…

We study some spectral properties of a matrix that is constructed as a combination of a Laplacian and an adjacency matrix of simple graphs. The matrix considered depends on a positive parameter, as such we consider the implications in…

Let $\Gamma=(V,E)$ be a simple graph. For a nonempty set $X\subseteq V$, and a vertex $v\in V$, $\delta_{X}(v)$ denotes the number of neighbors $v$ has in $X$. A nonempty set $S\subseteq V$ is a \emph{defensive $k$-alliance} in…

The domination polynomial of a graph is the polynomial whose coefficients count the number of dominating sets of each cardinality. A recent question asks which graphs are uniquely determined (up to isomorphism) by their domination…

For a graph $G$, we denote by $\alpha(G)$ the size of a maximum independent set and by $\omega(G)$ the size of a maximum clique in $G$. Our paper lies on the edge of two lines of research, related to $\alpha$ and $\omega$, respectively. One…

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This article introduces a new class of models for multiple networks. The core idea is to parametrize a distribution on labelled graphs in terms of a Fr\'{e}chet mean graph (which depends on a user-specified choice of metric or graph…

The domination polynomial of a graph $G$ of order $n$ is the polynomial $D(G,x)=\sum_{i=\gamma(G)}^{n} d(G,i) x^{i}$, where $d(G,i)$ is the number of dominating sets of $G$ of size $i$, and $\gamma(G)$ is the domination number of $G$. The…

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We consider the following generalization of dominating sets: Let $G$ be a host graph and $P$ be a pattern graph $P$. A dominating $P$-pattern in $G$ is a subset $S$ of vertices in $G$ that (1) forms a dominating set in $G$ \emph{and} (2)…

We show that the problem k-Dominating Set and its several variants including k-Connected Dominating Set, k-Independent Dominating Set, and k-Dominating Clique, when parameterized by the solution size k, are W[1]-hard in either…