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Motivated by the work on the domination number of directed de Bruijn graphs and some of its generalizations, in this paper we introduce a natural generalization of de Bruijn graphs (directed and undirected), namely $t$-constrained de Bruijn…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Tiziana Calamoneri , Angelo Monti , Blerina Sinaimeri

The concept of domination in graphs plays a central role in understanding structural properties and applications in network theory. In this study, we focus on the paired disjunctive domination number in the context of middle graphs, a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Hande Tuncel Golpek , Zeliha Kartal Yildiz , Aysun Aytac

For a graph $G=(V,E)$, we call a subset $ S\subseteq V \cup E$ a total mixed dominating set of $G$ if each element of $V \cup E$ is either adjacent or incident to an element of $S$, and the total mixed domination number $\gamma_{tm}(G)$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Farshad Kazemnejad , Adel P. Kazemi , Somayeh Moradi

We prove that for every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and with minimum degree five, the domination number $\gamma(G)$ cannot exceed $n/3$. The proof combines an algorithmic approach and the discharging method. Using the same technique, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Csilla Bujtás

Given a finite graph $G$, the maximum length of a sequence $(v_1,\ldots,v_k)$ of vertices in $G$ such that each $v_i$ dominates a vertex that is not dominated by any vertex in $\{v_1,\ldots,v_{i-1}\}$ is called the Grundy domination number,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Boštjan Brešar , Simon Brezovnik

We first introduce the concept of (k,k',k'')-domination numbers in graphs, which is a generalization of many domination parameters. Then we find lower and upper bounds for this parameter, which improve many well-known results in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Abdollah Khodkar , Babak Samadi , H. R. Golmohammadi

In a graph $G$, a vertex dominates itself and its neighbors. A subset $S\subseteq V(G)$ is said to be a double dominating set of $G$ if $S$ dominates every vertex of $G$ at least twice. The double domination number $\gamma_{\times 2}(G)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Wei Zhuang

Let $\gamma'_s(G)$ be the signed edge domination number of G. In 2006, Xu conjectured that: for any $2$-connected graph G of order $ n (n \geq 2),$ $\gamma'_s(G)\geq 1$. In this article we show that this conjecture is not true. More…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-20 Saeed Akbari , Sadegh Bolouki , Pooya Hatami , Milad Siami

Based on the history that the Emperor Constantine decreed that any undefended place (with no legions) of the Roman Empire must be protected by a "stronger" neighbor place (having two legions), a graph theoretical model called Roman…

Let $D=(V,A)$ be a digraph. A subset $S$ of $V$ is called a twin dominating set of $D$ if for every vertex $v\in V-S$, there exists vertices $u_1,u_2 \in S$ such that $(v,u_1)$ and $(u_2,v)$ are arcs in $D$. The minimum cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Dorota Osula , Rita Zuazua

This papers focuses on the average order of dominating sets of a graph. We find the extremal graphs for the maximum and minimum value over all graphs on $n$ vertices, while for trees we prove that the star minimizes the average order of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Iain Beaton , Jason I. Brown

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. A subset $D$ of $V(G)$ is called a super dominating set if for every $v \in V(G)-D$ there exists an external private neighbour of $v$ with respect to $V(G)-D.$ The minimum cardinality of a super dominating set is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-06 M. Lemańska , V. Swaminathan , Y. B. Venkatakrishnan , R. Zuazua

The upper and lower Nordhaus-Gaddum bounds over all graphs for the power domination number follow from known bounds on the domination number and examples. In this note we improve the upper sum bound for the power domination number…

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

Let $G$ be a graph without isolated vertices. The total domination number of $G$ is the minimum number of vertices that can dominate all vertices in $G$, and the paired domination number of $G$ is the minimum number of vertices in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Fu-Tao Hu , Jun-Ming Xu

Let $G$ be a graph with no isolated vertex. In this paper, we study a parameter that is a relaxation of arguably the most important domination parameter, namely the total domination number, $\gamma_t(G)$. A set $S$ of vertices in $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Michael A. Henning , Viroshan Naicker

In this paper, an upper bound for the perfect Italian domination number of the cartesian product of any two graphs is obtained and the exact value of this parameter for cartesian product of some special graphs are obtained. We have also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Jismi Varghese , Aparna Lakshmanan S

In this paper, we study the most basic domination invariants in graphs, in which number 2 is intrinsic part of their definitions. We classify them upon three criteria, two of which give the following previously studied invariants: the weak…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Flavia Bonomo , Bostjan Bresar , Luciano N. Grippo , Martin Milanic , Martin D. Safe

The Turan bound is a famous result in graph theory, which relates the independence number of an undirected graph to its edge density. Also the Caro-Wei inequality, which gives a more refined bound in terms of the vertex degree sequence of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-25 Hermann Gruber

Given a graph $F$, the random Tur\'an problem asks to determine the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of $G_{n,p}$. Prior to this work, the only bipartite graphs $F$ with known tight bounds included certain classes of complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Sean Longbrake , Sam Spiro