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Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite undirected graph. A set $S$ of vertices in $V$ is said to be total $k$-dominating if every vertex in $V$ is adjacent to at least $k$ vertices in $S$. The total $k$-domination number, $\gamma_{kt}(G)$, is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Walter Carballosa , Justin Wisby

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Nima Ghanbari

The Maker-Breaker domination game (MBD game) is a two-player game played on a graph $G$ by Dominator and Staller. They alternately select unplayed vertices of $G$. The goal of Dominator is to form a dominating set with the set of vertices…

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

Let $G=\big{(}V(G),E(G)\big{)}$ be a graph with minimum degree $k$. A subset $S\subseteq V(G)$ is called a total $k$-dominating set if every vertex in $G$ has at least $k$ neighbors in $S$. Two disjoint sets $A,B\subset V(G)$ form a total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Boštjan Brešar , Sandi Klavžar , Babak Samadi

In 2010, Bre\v{s}ar, Klav\v{z}ar and Rall introduced the optimization variant of the graph domination game and the game domination number, which was proved PSPACE-hard by Bre\v{s}ar et al. in 2016. In 2024, Leo Versteegen obtained the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-13 João Marcos Brito , Thiago Marcilon , Nicolas Martins , Rudini Sampaio

We study the m-Eternal Domination problem, which is the following two-player game between a defender and an attacker on a graph: initially, the defender positions k guards on vertices of the graph; the game then proceeds in turns between…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò , Neeldhara Misra , Saraswati G. Nanoti , Giacomo Paesani

A dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such that every vertex of $G$ is either in $S$ or is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. Nordhaus-Gaddum inequailties relate a graph $G$ to its complement $\bar{G}$. In this spirit Wagner…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Lauren Keough , David Shane

A total Roman dominating function on a graph $G$ is a function $f:V(G)\rightarrow \{0,1,2\}$ such that every vertex $v$ with $f(v)=0$ is adjacent to some vertex $u$ with $f(u)=2$, and the subgraph of $G$ induced by the set of all vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-05 C. M. Mynhardt , S. E. A. Ogden

Consider a finite and simple graph $G=(V,E)$ with maximum degree $\Delta$. A strong Roman dominating function over the graph $G$ is understood as a map $f : V (G)\rightarrow \{0, 1,\ldots , \left\lceil \frac{\Delta}{2}\right\rceil+ 1\}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-04 S. Nazari-Moghaddam , M. Soroudi , S. M. Sheikholeslami , I. G. Yero

In a graph $G$, a vertex dominates itself and its neighbors. A subset $S$ of vertices of $G$ is a double dominating set of $G$ if every vertex is dominated by at least two vertices in $S$. The double domination number $\gamma_{\times 2}(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Toru Araki

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$, whose minimum vertex degree is at least $k$. A subset $S$ of vertices in $G$ is a $k$-tuple total dominating set if every vertex of $G$ is adjacent to at least $k$ vertices in $S$. The minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Sharareh Alipour , Amir Jafari , Morteza Saghafian

Let $\gamma_g(G)$ be the game domination number of a graph $G$. Rall conjectured that if $G$ is a traceable graph, then $\gamma_g(G) \le \left\lceil \frac{1}{2}n(G)\right\rceil$. Our main result verifies the conjecture over the class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

The dominating number $\gamma(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum size of a vertex set whose closed neighborhoods cover all vertices of $G$, while the packing number $\rho(G)$ is the maximum size of a vertex set whose closed neighborhoods are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Ákos Dúcz , Anna Gujgiczer

The $1/2$-conjecture on the domination game asserts that if $G$ is a traceable graph, then the game domination number $\gamma_g(G)$ of $G$ is at most $\left\lceil \frac{n(G)}{2} \right\rceil$. A traceable graph is a $1/2$-graph if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar , Kexiang Xu

Let $G=(V, E)$ be a graph. A set $S\subseteq V(G)$ is a {\it dominating set} of $G$ if every vertex in $V\setminus S$ is adjacent to a vertex of $S$. The {\it domination number} of $G$, denoted by $\gamma(G)$, is the cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Hongting Wang , Baoyindureng Wu , Xinhui An

Let G be a graph. The independence-domination number is the maximum over all independent sets I in G of the minimal number of vertices needed to dominate I. In this paper we investigate the computational complexity of independence…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Wing-Kai Hon , Ton Kloks , Hsiang Hsuan Liu , Sheung-Hung Poon , Yue-Li Wang

We commence the study of domination in the incidence graphs of combinatorial designs. Let $D$ be a combinatorial design and denote by $\gamma(D)$ the domination number of the incidence (Levy) graph of $D$. We obtain a number of results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Felix Goldberg , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Rogers Mathew

Given a simple graph $G$, a dominating set in $G$ is a set of vertices $S$ such that every vertex not in $S$ has a neighbor in $S$. Denote the domination number, which is the size of any minimum dominating set of $G$, by $\gamma(G)$. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Randy Davila , Elliot Krop

The domatic game with pallete size $k$ is a $2$-player game played on a graph $G$ recently introduced by Hartnell and Rall. Players Alice and Bob take turns choosing an uncolored vertex from $G$, and coloring it a color from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Sean English , London Swan

A subset $D$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a dominating set if for each $u\in V(G)\setminus D$, $u$ is adjacent to some vertex $v\in D$. The domination number, $\gamma(G)$ of $G$, is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of $G$. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Doost Ali Mojdeh , Seyed Reza Musawi , Esmaeil Nazari