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The minimum dominating set problem asks for a dominating set with minimum size. First, we determine some vertices contained in the minimum dominating set of a graph. By applying a particular scheme, we ensure that the resulting graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Misa Nakanishi

The problem Defensive $\delta$-Covering, for some covering range $\delta > 0$, is a continuous facility location problem on undirected graphs where all edges have unit length. It is a generalization of Defensive Dominating Set and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Christoph Grüne , Tom Janßen

Clique-node and closed neighborhood matrices of circular interval graphs are circular matrices. The stable set polytope and the dominating set polytope on these graphs are therefore closely related to the set packing polytope and the set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Silvia Bianchi , Graciela Nasini , Paola Tolomei , Luis Miguel Torres

Eternal vertex cover problem is a variant of the classical vertex cover problem modeled as a two player attacker-defender game. Computing eternal vertex cover number of graphs is known to be NP-hard in general and the complexity status of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jasine Babu , K. Murali Krishnan , Veena Prabhakaran , Nandini J. Warrier

In the eternal domination game, an attacker attacks a vertex at each turn and a team of guards must move a guard to the attacked vertex to defend it. The guards may only move to adjacent vertices and no more than one guard may occupy a…

The game domination number is a graph invariant that arises from a game, which is related to graph domination in a similar way as the game chromatic number is related to graph coloring. In this paper we show that verifying whether the game…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Boštjan Brešar , Paul Dorbec , Sandi Klavžar , Gašper Košmrlj , Gabriel Renault

The chromatic number of signed graphs is defined recently. The coloring and clique problem of interval graphs has been studied and polynomial time algorithms are established. Here we consider these problems for signed interval graphs and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-23 F. Ramezani

A dominating set of a graph is a set of vertices such that every vertex not in the set has at least one neighbor in the set. The problem of counting dominating sets is #P-complete for chordal graphs but solvable in polynomial time for its…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Min-Sheng Lin

Capacitated Domination generalizes the classic Dominating Set problem by specifying for each vertex a required demand and an available capacity for covering demand in its closed neighborhood. The objective is to find a minimum-sized set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Amariah Becker

We study the m-eternal domination problem from the perspective of the attacker. For many graph classes, the minimum required number of guards to defend eternally is known. By definition, if the defender has less than the required number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Václav Blažej , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Tomáš Valla

A temporal graph is a finite sequence of graphs, called snapshots, over the same vertex set. Many temporal graph problems turn out to be much more difficult than their static counterparts. One such problem is \textsc{Timeline Vertex Cover}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anton Herrmann , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer

We introduce the game of Cops and Eternal Robbers played on graphs, where there are infinitely many robbers that appear sequentially over distinct plays of the game. A positive integer $t$ is fixed, and the cops are required to capture the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Anthony Bonato , Melissa Huggan , Trent Marbach , Fionn Mc Inerney

A set $S\subseteq V$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a dominating set if each vertex has a neighbor in $S$ or belongs to $S$. Dominating Set is the problem of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k\geq 1$, if $G$ has a dominating set of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Valentin Bouquet , François Delbot , Christophe Picouleau , Stéphane Rovedakis

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

In this article, the issue of guarding multi-agent systems against a sequence of intruder attacks through mobile heterogeneous guards (guards with different ranges) is discussed. The article makes use of graph theoretic abstractions of such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Waseem Abbas , Sajal Bhatia , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Let G=(V,E) be a graph. A vertex dominates itself and all its neighbors, i.e., every vertex v in V dominates its closed neighborhood N[v]. A vertex set D in G is an efficient dominating (e.d.) set for G if for every vertex v in V, there is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Andreas Brandstädt , Arne Leitert , Dieter Rautenbach

The Gamma-Theta Conjecture states that if the domination number of a graph is equal to its eternal domination number, then it is also equal to its clique covering number. This conjecture is known to be true for several graph classes, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Dmitrii Taletskii

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

In a graph G, a k-attack A is any set of at most k vertices and l-defense D is a set of at most l vertices. We say that defense D counters attack A if each a in A can be matched to a distinct defender d in D with a equal to d or a adjacent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Steven Chaplick , Grzegorz Gutowski , Tomasz Krawczyk

The eternal vertex cover problem is a variant of the classical vertex cover problem where a set of guards on the vertices have to be dynamically reconfigured from one vertex cover to another in every round of an attacker-defender game. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jasine Babu , L. Sunil Chandran , Mathew Francis , Veena Prabhakaran , Deepak Rajendraprasad , J. Nandini Warrier