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We introduce joins of signed graphs and explore the chromatic number of the all-positive and all-negative joins. We prove an analogue to the theorem that the chromatic number of the join of two graphs equals the sum of their chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-01 Amelia R. W. Mattern

In this paper, we investigate the relation between the (fractional) domination number of a digraph $G$ and the independence number of its underlying graph, denoted by $\alpha(G)$. More precisely, we prove that every digraph $G$ has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Ararat Harutyunyan , Tien-Nam Le , Alantha Newman , Stéphan Thomassé

This paper serves as the first extension of the topic of dominator colorings of graphs to the setting of digraphs. We establish the dominator chromatic number over all possible orientations of paths and cycles. In this endeavor we discover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Michael Cary

In this short paper, we establish relations between the domination number $\gamma$, the total domination number $\gamma_t$, and the connected domination number $\gamma_c$ of a graph. In particular, we prove upper and lower bounds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Dickson Y. B. Annor

A cycle in a graph is called dominating if every edge of the graph is incident with a vertex of the cycle. In this paper, we investigate forbidden pairs guaranteeing the existence of a dominating cycle in 2-connected graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Shuya Chiba , Michitaka Furuya , Shoichi Tsuchiya

A Roman dominating function on a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a function $f:V\rightarrow\{0,1,2\}$ such that every vertex $v\in V$ with $f(v)=0$ has at least one neighbor $u\in V$ with $f(u)=2$. The weight of a Roman dominating function is the value…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-09 A. Bahremandpour , Fu-Tao Hu , S. M. Sheikholeslami , Jun-Ming Xu

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple graph of order $n$. A Majority Roman Dominating Function (MRDF) on a graph G is a function $f: V\rightarrow\{-1, +1, 2\}$ if the sum of its function values over at least half the closed neighborhoods is at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Azam Sadat Emadi , Iman Masoumi , Seyed Reza Musawi

In this paper, we study the notions of connected domination number and of outer-connected domination number for middle graphs. Indeed, we obtain tight bounds for this number in terms of the order of the graph M(G). We also compute the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Farshad Kazemnejad , Behnaz Pahlavsay , Elisa Palezzato , Michele Torielli

We give a shorter proof of the recurrence relation for the domination polynomial $\gamma (P_{n},t)$ and for the number $\gamma _{k}(P_{n})$ of dominating $k$-sets of the path with $n$ vertices. For every positive integers $n$ and $k,$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Jorge L. Arocha , Bernardo Llano

A set $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a dominating set for $G$ if every vertex outside of $S$ is adjacent to at least one vertex belonging to $S$. The minimum cardinality of a dominating set for $G$ is called the domination number of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Ismael G. Yero , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

A dominating set in a graph is a set of vertices with the property that every vertex in the graph is either in the set or adjacent to something in the set. The domination sequence of the graph is the sequence whose $k$th term is the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-26 David Galvin , Yufei Zhang

Let $k$ be a positive integer. A {\em Roman $k$-dominating function} on a graph $G$ is a labeling $f:V (G)\longrightarrow \{0, 1, 2\}$ such that every vertex with label 0 has at least $k$ neighbors with label 2. A set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-23 A. P. Kazemi , S. M. Sheikholeslami , L. Volkmann

A signed graph is a graph whose edges are labelled positive or negative. The sign of a circle (cycle, circuit) is the product of the signs of its edges. Most of the essential properties of a signed graph depend on the signs of its circles.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Thomas Zaslavsky

In this paper, we characterize the sets $\mathcal{H}$ of connected graphs such that there exists a constant $c=c(\mathcal{H})$ satisfying $\gamma (G)\leq c$ for every connected $\mathcal{H}$-free graph $G$, where $\gamma (G)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Michitaka Furuya

Roman-type domination parameters form an important class of graph invariants that model protection and resource allocation problems on networks. Among them, $[k]$-Roman domination provides a unified framework that generalizes Roman, double…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Simon Brezovnik , Janez Žerovnik

A Roman domination function on a graph G is a function $r:V(G)\to \{0,1,2\}$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $u$ for which $r(u)=0$ is adjacent to at least one vertex $v$ for which $r(v)=2$. The weight of a Roman function is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-19 A. Martínez-Pérez , D. Oliveros

In this paper we study the weak Roman domination number and the secure domination number of a graph. In particular, we obtain general bounds on these two parameters and, as a consequence of the study, we derive new inequalities of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Magdalena Valveny , Juan Alberto Rodriguez-Velazquez

Given a graph $G$ with vertex set $V$, $f : V \rightarrow \{0, 1, 2\}$ is a \emph{Roman $\{2\}$-dominating function} (or \emph{italian dominating function}) of $G$ if for every vertex $v\in V$ with $f(v) =0$, either there exists a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Lara Fernández , Valeria Leoni

Roman domination is one of the many variants of domination that keeps most of the complexity features of the classical domination problem. We prove that Roman domination behaves differently in two aspects: enumeration and extension. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Henning Fernau , Kevin Mann

Total dominator total coloring of a graph is a total coloring of the graph such that each object of the graph is adjacent or incident to every object of some color class. The minimum namber of the color classes of a total dominator total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Adel P. Kazemi , Farshad Kazemnejad