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The (total) connected domination game on a graph $G$ is played by two players, Dominator and Staller, according to the standard (total) domination game with the additional requirement that at each stage of the game the selected vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Csilla Bujtás , Michael A. Henning , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

The Z-domination game is a variant of the domination game in which each newly selected vertex $u$ in the game must have a not yet dominated neighbor, but after the move all vertices from the closed neighborhood of $u$ are declared to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

In this paper a relationship is established between the domination game and minimal edge cuts. It is proved that the game domination number of a connected graph can be bounded above in terms of the size of minimal edge cuts. In particular,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Sandi Klavžar , Douglas F. Rall

Let $\gamma_g(G)$ be the game domination number of a graph $G$. It is proved that if ${\rm diam}(G) = 2$, then $\gamma_g(G) \le \left\lceil \frac{n(G)}{2} \right\rceil- \left\lfloor \frac{n(G)}{11}\right\rfloor$. The bound is attained: if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar , Kexiang Xu

Given a graph $G$ and a family of graphs $\cal F$, an $\cal F$-isolating set, as introduced by Caro and Hansberg, is any set $S\subset V(G)$ such that $G - N[S]$ contains no member of $\cal F$ as a subgraph. In this paper, we introduce a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Boštjan Brešar , Tanja Dravec , Daniel P. Johnston , Kirsti Kuenzel , Douglas F. Rall

In any graph $G$, the domination number $\gamma(G)$ is at most the independence number $\alpha(G)$. The Inverse Domination Conjecture says that, in any isolate-free $G$, there exists pair of vertex-disjoint dominating sets $D, D'$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Elliot Krop , Jessica McDonald , Gregory J. Puleo

Let $\gamma(G)$ and $i(G)$ be the domination number and the independent domination number of $G$, respectively. In 1977, Hedetniemi and Mitchell began with the comparison of of $i(G)$ and $\gamma(G)$ and recently Rad and Volkmann posted a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Shaohui Wang , Bing Wei

Domination game [SIAM J.\ Discrete Math.\ 24 (2010) 979--991] and total domination game [Graphs Combin.\ 31 (2015) 1453--1462] are by now well established games played on graphs by two players, named Dominator and Staller. In this paper,…

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by Dominator and Staller. The players alternatively select a vertex of $G$ that was not yet chosen in the course of the game. Dominator wins if at some point the vertices he has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Valentin Gledel , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

We study the Maker-Maker version of the domination game introduced in 2018 by Duch\^ene et al. Given a graph, two players alternately claim vertices. The first player to claim a dominating set of the graph wins. As the Maker-Breaker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Eric Duchêne , Arthur Dumas , Nacim Oijid , Aline Parreau , Eric Rémila

The total isolation game is played on a graph $G$ by two players who take turns playing a vertex such that if $S$ is the set of already played vertices, then a vertex can be selected only if it is adjacent to a vertex that belongs to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Michael A. Henning , Douglas F. Rall

We introduce the Maker-Breaker domination game, a two player game on a graph. At his turn, the first player, Dominator, select a vertex in order to dominate the graph while the other player, Staller, forbids a vertex to Dominator in order…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Eric Duchêne , Valentin Gledel , Aline Parreau , Gabriel Renault

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, called Dominator and Staller, who alternately choose a vertex that has not been played so far. Dominator wins the game if his moves form a dominating set. Staller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Csilla Bujtás , Pakanun Dokyeesun

Two new techniques are introduced into the theory of the domination game. The cutting lemma bounds the game domination number of a partially dominated graph with the game domination number of suitably modified partially dominated graph. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Paul Dorbec , Michael A. Henning , Sandi Klavžar , Gašper Košmrlj

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, called Dominator and Staller. They alternately select an unplayed vertex in $G$. Dominator wins the game if he forms a dominating set while Staller wins the game if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Pakanun Dokyeesun

A set $D \subseteq V$ for the graph $G=(V, E)$ is called a dominating set if any vertex $v\in V\setminus D$ has at least one neighbor in $D$. Fomin et al.[9] gave an algorithm for enumerating all minimal dominating sets with $n$ vertices in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-08 M. Alambardar Meybodi , M. R. Hooshmandasl , P. Sharifani , A. Shakiba

A set $S\subseteq V$ is a dominating set of $G$ if every vertex in $V - S$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $S$. The domination number $\gamma(G)$ of $G$ equals the minimum cardinality of a dominating set $S$ in $G$; we say that such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Benjamin M. Case , Stephen T. Hedetniemi , Renu C. Laskar , Drew J. Lipman

As a natural variant of domination in graphs, Dankelmann et al. [Domination with exponential decay, Discrete Math. 309 (2009) 5877-5883] introduce exponential domination, where vertices are considered to have some dominating power that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Stephane Bessy , Pascal Ochem , Dieter Rautenbach

In the Maker-Breaker domination game, Dominator and Staller play on a graph $G$ by taking turns in which each player selects a not yet played vertex of $G$. Dominator's goal is to select all the vertices in a dominating set, while Staller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Athira Divakaran , Tijo James , Sandi Klavžar , Latha S Nair

Motivated by the burning and cooling processes, the burning game is introduced. The game is played on a graph $G$ by the two players (Burner and Staller) that take turns selecting vertices of $G$ to burn; as in the burning process, burning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Nina Chiarelli , Vesna Iršič , Marko Jakovac , William B. Kinnersley , Mirjana Mikalački