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Eternal and m-eternal domination are concerned with using mobile guards to protect a graph against infinite sequences of attacks at vertices. Eternal domination allows one guard to move per attack, whereas more than one guard may move per…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-22 William F Klostermeyer , Christina M Mynhardt

Dominating sets in graphs are often used to model some monitoring of the graph: guards are posted on the vertices of the dominating set, and they can thus react to attacks occurring on the unguarded vertices by moving there (yielding a new…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guillaume Bagan , Nicolas Bousquet , Nacim Oijid , Théo Pierron

An eternal dominating set of a graph $G$ is a set of vertices (or "guards") which dominates $G$ and which can defend any infinite series of vertex attacks, where an attack is defended by moving one guard along an edge from its current…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Aaron Krim-Yee , Ben Seamone , Virgélot Virgile

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

Eternal vertex cover is the following two-player game between a defender and an attacker on a graph. Initially, the defender positions k guards on k vertices of the graph; the game then proceeds in turns between the defender and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò , Giacomo Paesani

Eternal Vertex Cover problem is a dynamic variant of the vertex cover problem. We have a two player game in which guards are placed on some vertices of a graph. In every move, one player (the attacker) attacks an edge. In response to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Neeldhara Misra , Saraswati Nanoti

We study the relationship between the eternal domination number of a graph and its clique covering number using both large-scale computation and analytic methods. In doing so, we answer two open questions of Klostermeyer and Mynhardt. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Gary MacGillivray , C. M. Mynhardt , Virgélot Virgile

$k$-defensive domination, a variant of the classical domination problem on graphs, seeks a minimum cardinality vertex set providing a surjective defense against any attack on vertices of cardinality bounded by a parameter $k$. The problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Tınaz Ekim , Arthur Farley , Andrzej Proskurowski , Mordechai Shalom

In the eternal vertex cover problem, mobile guards on the vertices of a graph are used to defend it against an infinite sequence of attacks on its edges by moving to neighbor vertices. The eternal vertex cover problem consists in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò

In the m-\emph{Eternal Domination} game, a team of guard tokens initially occupies a dominating set on a graph $G$. An attacker then picks a vertex without a guard on it and attacks it. The guards defend against the attack: one of them has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Ioannis Lamprou , Russell Martin , Sven Schewe

Mobile guards on the vertices of a graph are used to defend the graph against an infinite sequence of attacks on vertices. A guard must move from a neighboring vertex to an attacked vertex (we assume attacks happen only at vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 William F. Klostermeyer , Gary MacGillivray

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph without isolated vertices. A set $S\subseteq V$ is a paired-domination set if every vertex in $V-S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$ and the subgraph induced by $S$ contains a perfect matching. The paired-domination…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-21 Lei Chen Changhong Lu Zhenbing Zeng

We study the eternal dominating number and the m-eternal dominating number on digraphs. We generalize known results on graphs to digraphs. We also consider the problem "oriented (m-)eternal domination", consisting in finding an orientation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Guillaume Bagan , Alice Joffard , Hamamache Kheddouci

In m-eternal domination attacker and defender play on a graph. Initially, the defender places guards on vertices. In each round, the attacker chooses a vertex to attack. Then, the defender can move each guard to a neighboring vertex and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Václav Blažej , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Tomáš Valla

A dominating set of a graph G(V, E) is a set of vertices D\subseteq V such that every vertex in V\D has a neighbor in D. An eternal dominating set extends this concept by placing mobile guards on the vertices of D. In response to an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ashutosh Rai , Soumyashree Rana

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

In a graph $G$, a vertex subset $S\subseteq V(G)$ is said to be a dominating set of $G$ if every vertex not in $S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. A dominating set $S$ of a graph $G$ is called a paired-dominating set if the induced subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Ching-Chi Lin , Hai-Lun Tu

We introduce the bodyguard problem for graphs. This is a variation of Surrounding Cops and Robber but, in this model, a smallest possible group of bodyguards must surround the president and then maintain this protection indefinitely. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Nancy E. Clarke , Danny Dyer , William Kellough

Given a graph $G$, guards are placed on vertices of $G$. Then vertices are subject to an infinite sequence of attacks so that each attack must be defended by a guard moving from a neighboring vertex. The m-eternal domination number is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Václav Blažej , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Tomáš Valla

We investigate the problem of simultaneously dominating all spanning trees of a given graph. We prove that on 2-connected graphs, a subset of the vertices dominates all spanning trees of the graph if and only if it is a vertex cover. Using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Sebastian S. Johann , Sven O. Krumke , Manuel Streicher
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