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Given a graph G equals (V,E), a subset S subset of V is a dominating set if every vertex in V minus S is adjacent to some vertex in S. The dominating set with the least cardinality, gamma, is called a gamma-set which is commonly known as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Julian Allagan , Benkam Bobga

A set $S\subseteq V$ is a dominating set of $G$ if every vertex in $V - S$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $S$. The domination number $\gamma(G)$ of $G$ equals the minimum cardinality of a dominating set $S$ in $G$; we say that such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Benjamin M. Case , Todd Fenstermacher , Soumendra Ganguly , Renu C. Laskar

A subset $S$ of vertices in a graph $G=(V, E)$ is a Dominating Set if each vertex in $V(G)\setminus S$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $S$. Chellali et al. in 2013, by restricting the number of neighbors in $S$ of a vertex outside…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Mohsen Alambardar Meybodi , Abolfazl Poureidi

As a natural variant of domination in graphs, Dankelmann et al. [Domination with exponential decay, Discrete Math. 309 (2009) 5877-5883] introduce exponential domination, where vertices are considered to have some dominating power that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Stephane Bessy , Pascal Ochem , Dieter Rautenbach

A set $D$ of vertices in an isolate-free graph $G$ is a semitotal dominating set of $G$ if $D$ is a dominating set of $G$ and every vertex in $D$ is within distance $2$ from another vertex of $D$.The semitotal domination number of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Saeid Alikhani , Hassan Zaherifar

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. A subset $D$ of $V(G)$ is called a super dominating set if for every $v \in V(G)-D$ there exists an external private neighbour of $v$ with respect to $V(G)-D.$ The minimum cardinality of a super dominating set is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-06 M. Lemańska , V. Swaminathan , Y. B. Venkatakrishnan , R. Zuazua

A dominating set of a graph $G$ is a set $D\subseteq V_G$ such that every vertex in $V_G-D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$, and the domination number $\gamma(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of $G$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Mateusz Miotk , Jerzy Topp , Paweł Żyliński

A \emph{perfect Roman dominating function} (PRDF) on a graph $G = (V, E)$ is a function $f : V \rightarrow \{0, 1, 2\}$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $u$ for which $f(u) = 0$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex $v$ for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Zepeng Li , Zehui Shao , Yongsheng Rao , Pu Wu , Shaohui Wang

For a graph $G = (V(G), E(G))$, a dominating set $D$ is a vertex subset of $V(G)$ in which every vertex of $V(G) \setminus D$ is adjacent to a vertex in $D$. The domination number of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 David A. Kalarkop , Pawaton Kaemawichanurat , Raghavachar Rangarajan

This paper delves into the stability of the $2$-domination number in simple undirected graphs. The $2$-domination number of a graph $G$, $\gamma_2(G)$, represents the minimum size of a vertex subset where every other vertex in the graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Mazharuddin Mehraban , Saeid Alikhani

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

A vertex subset $S$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a $[1,2]$-dominating set if each vertex of $V\backslash S$ is adjacent to either one or two vertices in $S$. The minimum cardinality of a $[1,2]$-dominating set of $G$, denoted by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Fairouz Beggas , Volker Turau , Mohammed Haddad , Hamamache Kheddouci

Let $G$ be a finite simple graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. A function $f : V(G) \rightarrow \mathcal{P}(\{1, 2, \dotsc, k\})$ is a \textit{$k$-rainbow dominating function} on $G$ if for each vertex $v \in V(G)$ for which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Kijung Kim

The domination number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\gamma (G)$, is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of $G$. A vertex of a graph is called critical if its deletion decreases the domination number, and a graph is called critical if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Michitaka Furuya

The open neighbourhood of a vertex $v$ of a graph $G$ is the set $N(v)$ consisting of all vertices adjacent to $v$ in $G$. For $D\subseteq V(G)$, we define $\overline{D}=V(G)\setminus D$. A set $D\subseteq V(G)$ is called a super dominating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Douglas J. Klein , Juan A. Rodríguez-Velázquez , Eunjeong Yi

An edge Roman dominating function of a graph $G$ is a function $f\colon E(G) \rightarrow \{0,1,2\}$ satisfying the condition that every edge $e$ with $f(e)=0$ is adjacent to some edge $e'$ with $f(e')=2$. The edge Roman domination number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Gerard J. Chang , Sheng-Hua Chen , Chun-Hung Liu

For $k \geq 1$ and a graph $G$ without isolated vertices, a \emph{total (distance) $k$-dominating set} of $G$ is a set of vertices $S \subseteq V(G)$ such that every vertex in $G$ is within distance $k$ to some vertex of $S$ other than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Randy Davila

A set $D$ of vertices of a simple graph $G=(V,E)$ is a strong dominating set, if for every vertex $x\in \overline{D}=V\setminus D$ there is a vertex $y\in D$ with $xy\in E(G)$ and $deg(x)\leq deg(y)$. The strong domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Nima Ghanbari , Saeid Alikhani

For a simple graph $G=(V,E)$ without any isolated vertex, a cosecure dominating set $D$ of $G$ satisfies the following two properties (i) $S$ is a dominating set of $G$, (ii) for every vertex $v \in S$ there exists a vertex $u \in V…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Kusum , Arti Pandey

A subset $D$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a total dominating set if every vertex of $G$ is adjacent to at least one vertex of $D$. The total dominating set $D$ is called a total co-independent dominating set if the subgraph induced by…