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A perfect code in a graph $\Gamma = (V, E)$ is a subset $C$ of $V$ such that no two vertices in $C$ are adjacent and every vertex in $V \setminus C$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. A subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Binbin Li , Jingjian Li , Wei Meng , Hao Yu

A subset $C$ of the vertex set of a graph $\Gamma$ is said to be $(a,b)$-regular if $C$ induces an $a$-regular subgraph and every vertex outside $C$ is adjacent to exactly $b$ vertices in $C$. In particular, if $C$ is an $(a,b)$-regular set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Asamin Khaefi , Zeinab Akhlaghi , Behrooz Khosravi

For a graph $\Gamma=(V\Gamma,E\Gamma)$, a subset $D$ of $V\Gamma$ is a perfect code in $\Gamma$ if every vertex of $\Gamma$ is dominated by exactly one vertex in $D$. In this paper, we classify all connected quartic Cayley graphs on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Chengcheng Dong , Yuefeng Yang , Changchang Dong

Let \( G \) be a finite non-cyclic group. Define \( \mathrm{Cyc}(G) \) as the set of all elements \( a \in G \) such that for any $b\in G$, the subgroup \( \langle a, b \rangle \) is cyclic. The \emph{non-cyclic graph} $\Gamma(G)$ of \( G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Parveen Parveen , Bikash Bhattacharjya

A perfect code in a graph $\Gamma$ is a subset $C$ of the vertex set of $\Gamma$ such that every vertex of $\Gamma$ outside $C$ has exactly one neighbour in $C$. A perfect code in a directed graph can be defined similarly by requiring that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Yusuf Hafidh , Binzhou Xia , Sanming Zhou

Let $X = (V,E)$ be a graph. A subset $C \subseteq V(X)$ is a \emph{perfect code} of $X$ if $C$ is a coclique of $X$ with the property that any vertex in $V(X)\setminus C$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. Given a finite group $G$…

For a digraph $\Gamma$, a subset $C$ of $V(\Gamma)$ is a perfect code if $C$ is a dominating set such that every vertex of $\Gamma$ is dominated by exactly one vertex in $C$. In this paper, we classify strongly connected 2-valent Cayley…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Shilong Yu , Yuefeng Yang , Yushuang Fan , Xuanlong Ma

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with unity not equal to zero and let $\Gamma(R)$ be a zero-divisor graph realized by $R$. For a simple, undirected, connected graph $G = (V, E)$, a {\it total perfect code} denoted by $C(G)$ in $G$ is a subset…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Rameez Raja

Let $\Gamma$ be a graph with vertex set $V$, and let $a$ and $b$ be nonnegative integers. A subset $C$ of $V$ is called an $(a,b)$-regular set in $\Gamma$ if every vertex in $C$ has exactly $a$ neighbors in $C$ and every vertex in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Yanpeng Wang , Binzhou Xia , Sanming Zhou

A subset $C$ of the vertex set of a graph $\Gamma$ is said to be $(\alpha,\beta)$-regular if $C$ induces an $\alpha$-regular subgraph and every vertex outside $C$ is adjacent to exactly $\beta$ vertices in $C$. In particular, if $C$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-06 F. Seiedali , B. Khosravi , Z. Akhlaghi

A perfect code in a graph is an independent set of the graph such that every vertex outside the set is adjacent to exactly one vertex in the set. A circulant graph is a Cayley graph of a cyclic group. In this paper we study perfect codes in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Xiaomeng Wang , Oriol Serra , Shou-Jun Xu , Sanming Zhou

\noindent A perfect dominating set in a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset $S \subseteq V$ such that each vertex in $V \setminus S$ has exactly one neighbor in $S$. A perfect coalition in $G$ consists of two disjoint sets of vertices $V_i$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Doost Ali Mojdeh , Mohammad Reza Samadzadeh

A dominating set $S$ in a graph $G$ is said to be perfect if every vertex of $G$ not in $S$ is adjacent to just one vertex of $S$. Given a vertex subset $S'$ of a side $P_m$ of an $m\times n$ grid graph $G$, the perfect dominating sets $S$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Italo J. Dejter , Abel A. Delgado

Let $0<\ell\in\mathbb{Z}$. The notion of an efficient dominating set or perfect code $S$ of a graph $G$ is generalized to that of an efficient dominating$\,^\ell$-set or perfect$^\ell$code, of the graph $G$, meaning that each vertex $v$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Italo J. Dejter

Inspired by a famous characterization of perfect graphs due to Lov\'{a}sz, we define a graph $G$ to be sum-perfect if for every induced subgraph $H$ of $G$, $\alpha(H) + \omega(H) \geq |V(H)|$. (Here $\alpha$ and $\omega$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Bart Litjens , Sven Polak , Vaidy Sivaraman

A dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such that every vertex that does not belong to $S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. The domination number $\gamma(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of $G$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Magda Dettlaff , Michael A. Henning , Jerzy Topp

We consider Cayley sum graphs over the cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}_n$ and aim to explore several necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of total perfect codes in these graphs. Specifically, we examine various cases for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Masoumeh Koohestani , Doost Ali Mojdeh , Mohsen Ghasemi

The co-maximal subgroup graph $\Gamma(G)$ of a group $G$ is a graph whose vertices are non-trivial proper subgroups of $G$ and two vertices $H$ and $K$ are adjacent if $HK=G$. In this paper, we continue the study of $\Gamma(G)$, especially…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Angsuman Das , Manideepa Saha , Saba Al-Kaseasbeh

For a finite group $G$, let $\Delta(G)$ denote the character graph built on the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of $G$. In graph theory, a perfect graph is a graph $\Gamma$ in which the chromatic number of every induced…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Mahdi Ebrahimi

The commuting graph ${\Gamma(G)}$ of a group $G$ is the simple undirected graph with group elements as a vertex set and two elements $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $xy=yx$ in $G$. By eliminating the identity element of $G$ and all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Siddharth Malviy , Vipul Kakkar