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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

We prove that, in games in which all the guards move at the same turn, the eternal domination and the clique-connected cover numbers coincide for interval graphs. A linear algorithm for the eternal dominating set problem is obtained as a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Martín Rinemberg , Francisco J. Soulignac

In this paper we give tight upper bounds on the total domination number, the weakly connected domination number and the connected domination number of a graph in terms of order and Euler characteristic. We also present upper bounds for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Vladimir Samodivkin

In this paper, we study the domination number of middle graphs. Indeed, we obtain tight bounds for this number in terms of the order of the graph. We also compute the domination number of some families of graphs such as star graphs, double…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Farshad Kazemnejad , Behnaz Pahlavsay , Elisa Palezzato , Michele Torielli

A dominating set $D$ of a graph $G$ is a set of vertices such that any vertex in $G$ is in $D$ or its neighbor is in $D$. Enumeration of minimal dominating sets in a graph is one of central problems in enumeration study since enumeration of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa , Hiroki Arimura , Takeaki Uno

Given a graph and an integer $k$, it is an NP-complete problem to decide whether there is a dominating set of size at most $k$. In this paper we study this problem for the Kn\"odel Graph on $n$ vertices using elementary number theory…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jesse Racicot , Giovanni Rosso

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

This paper initiates the study of fractional eternal domination in graphs, a natural relaxation of the well-studied eternal domination problem. We study the connections to flows and linear programming in order to obtain results on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Fnu Devvrit , Aaron Krim-Yee , Nithish Kumar , Gary MacGillivray , Ben Seamone , Virgélot Virgile , AnQi Xu

A vertex set $D$ in a finite undirected graph $G$ is an efficient dominating set (e.d.s. for short) of $G$ if every vertex of $G$ is dominated by exactly one vertex of $D$. The Efficient Domination (ED) problem, which asks for the existence…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

Eternal domination is a dynamic process by which a graph is protected from an infinite sequence of vertex intrusions. In eternal distance-$k$ domination, guards initially occupy the vertices of a distance-$k$ dominating set. After a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Danielle Cox , Erin Meger , M. E. Messinger

A directed dominating set in a directed graph $D$ is a set $S$ of vertices of $V$ such that every vertex $u \in V(D) \setminus S$ has an adjacent vertex $v$ in $S$ with $v$ directed to $u$. The directed domination number of $D$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Yair Caro , Michael A. Henning

Counting dominating sets in a graph $G$ is closely related to the neighborhood complex of $G$. We exploit this relation to prove that the number of dominating sets $d(G)$ of a graph is determined by the number of complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Irene Heinrich , Peter Tittmann

Given a graph G=(V, E), a vertex is said to ve-dominate an edge if it is either incident with the edge or adjacent to one of its endpoints. A set of vertices is a ve-dominating set if it ve-dominates every edge of the graph. We introduce…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yasemin Büyükçolak

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

A dominating induced matching, also called an efficient edge domination, of a graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n=|V|$ vertices and $m=|E|$ edges is a subset $F \subseteq E$ of edges in the graph such that no two edges in $F$ share a common endpoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Mingyu Xiao , Hiroshi Nagamochi

Let $G(V,E)$ be a simple, undirected and connected graph. A dominating set $S \subseteq V(G)$ is called a $2$-\textit{secure dominating set} ($2$-SDS) in $G$, if for every pair of distinct vertices $u_1,u_2 \in V(G)$ there exists a pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-07 J. Pavan Kumar , P. Venkata Subba Reddy

Say that an edge of a graph G dominates itself and every other edge adjacent to it. An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of edges E' of E which dominates all edges of G. In particular, if every edge of G is dominated by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Min Chih Lin , Michel J. Mizrahi , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

For a graph $G = (V, E)$ with vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$, a subset $F$ of $E$ is called an $\emph{edge dominating set}$ (resp. a $\emph{total edge dominating set}$) if every edge in $E\backslash F$ (resp. in $E$) is adjacent to at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Zhuo Pan , Yu Yang , Xianyue Li , Shou-Jun Xu

A graph is said to be well-dominated if all its minimal dominating sets are of the same size. The class of well-dominated graphs forms a subclass of the well studied class of well-covered graphs. While the recognition problem for the class…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Didem Gözüpek , Ademir Hujdurović , Martin Milanič

{\em Partial domination problem} is a generalization of the {\em minimum dominating set problem} on graphs. Here, instead of dominating all the nodes, one asks to dominate at least a fraction of the nodes of the given graph by choosing a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Madhura Dutta , Anil Maheshwari , Subhas C. Nandy , Bodhayan Roy