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In the domination game studied here, Dominator and Staller alternately choose a vertex of a graph $G$ and take it into a set $D$. The number of vertices dominated by the set $D$ must increase in each single turn and the game ends when $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Csilla Bujtás

In this paper, we continue the study of the total domination game in graphs introduced in [Graphs Combin. 31(5) (2015), 1453--1462], where the players Dominator and Staller alternately select vertices of $G$. Each vertex chosen must…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Michael A. Henning , Douglas F. Rall

The total domination game is a two-person competitive optimization game, where the players, Dominator and Staller, alternately select vertices of an isolate-free graph $G$. Each vertex chosen must strictly increase the number of vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Csilla Bujtás

We introduce and study a Maker-Breaker type game in which the issue is to create or avoid two disjoint dominating sets in graphs without isolated vertices. We prove that the maker has a winning strategy on all connected graphs if the game…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Csilla Bujtás , Zsolt Tuza

We analyze the domination game, where two players, Dominator and Staller, construct together a dominating set M in a given graph, by alternately selecting vertices into M. Each move must increase the size of the dominated set. The players…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Neta Marcus , David Peleg

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by Dominator and Staller. The players alternatively select a vertex of $G$ that was not yet chosen in the course of the game. Dominator wins if at some point the vertices he has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Valentin Gledel , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

We study Maker--Breaker total domination game played by two players, Dominator and Staller, on the connected cubic graphs. Staller (playing the role of Maker) wins if she manages to claim an open neighbourhood of a vertex. Dominator wins…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jovana Forcan , Mirjana Mikalački

The study of power domination in graphs arises from the problem of placing a minimum number of measurement devices in an electrical network while monitoring the entire network. A power dominating set of a graph is a set of vertices from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Boris Brimkov , Derek Mikesell , Logan Smith

In the total domination game played on a graph $G$, players Dominator and Staller alternately select vertices of $G$, as long as possible, such that each vertex chosen increases the number of vertices totally dominated. Dominator (Staller)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Michael A. Henning , Sandi Klavžar , Douglas F. Rall

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

Two new techniques are introduced into the theory of the domination game. The cutting lemma bounds the game domination number of a partially dominated graph with the game domination number of suitably modified partially dominated graph. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Paul Dorbec , Michael A. Henning , Sandi Klavžar , Gašper Košmrlj

A predominated graph is a pair $(G,D)$, where $G$ is a graph and the vertices in $D\subseteq V(G)$ are considered already dominated. Maker-Breaker domination game critical (MBD critical) predominated graphs are introduced as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Csilla Bujtás , Pakanun Dokyeesun , Sandi Klavžar , Miloš Stojaković

The Z-domination game is a variant of the domination game in which each newly selected vertex $u$ in the game must have a not yet dominated neighbor, but after the move all vertices from the closed neighborhood of $u$ are declared to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

We present constructions regarding the general behaviour of biased positional games, and amongst others show that the outcome of such a game can differ in an arbitrary way depending on which player starts the game, and that fair biased…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Ali Deniz Bagdas , Dennis Clemens , Fabian Hamann , Yannick Mogge

The Maker-Breaker domination game is a positional game played on a graph by two players called Dominator and Staller. The players alternately select a vertex of the graph that has not yet been chosen. Dominator wins if at some point the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Guillaume Bagan , Eric Duchêne , Valentin Gledel , Tuomo Lehtilä , Aline Parreau

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

A set of vertices of a graph $G$ such that each vertex of $G$ is either in the set or is adjacent to a vertex in the set is called a dominating set of $G$. If additionally, the set of vertices induces a connected subgraph of $G$ then the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Felicity Bryant , Elena Pavelescu

An outer-connected dominating set for an arbitrary graph $G$ is a set $\tilde{D} \subseteq V$ such that $\tilde{D}$ is a dominating set and the induced subgraph $G [V \setminus \tilde{D}]$ be connected. In this paper, we focus on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-02 M. Hashemipour , M. R. Hooshmandasl , A. Shakiba

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by Dominator and Staller who alternate turns selecting an unplayed vertex of $G$. The goal of Dominator is that the vertices he selected during the game form a dominating set while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Boštjan Brešar , Tanja Dravec , Kirsti Kuenzel , Douglas F. Rall

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, called Dominator and Staller, who alternately choose a vertex that has not been played so far. Dominator wins the game if his moves form a dominating set. Staller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Csilla Bujtás , Pakanun Dokyeesun