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This paper introduces the concept of domination in the context of colored graphs (where each color assigns a weight to the vertices of its class), termed up-color domination, where a vertex dominating another must be heavier than the other.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 María A. Garrido-Vizuete , Mucuy-kak Guevara , Alberto Márquez , Rafael Robles

Given a simple, finite, nonempty graph $G=(V(G),E(G))$, a vertex subset $D\subseteq V(G)$ is said to be a dominating set if every vertex $v\in V(G)-D$ is adjacent to a vertex in $D$. The independent domination number $\gamma_i(G)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Andrew Pham

In this short paper, we establish relations between the domination number $\gamma$, the total domination number $\gamma_t$, and the connected domination number $\gamma_c$ of a graph. In particular, we prove upper and lower bounds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Dickson Y. B. Annor

We establish upper and lower bounds for the 2-limited broadcast domination number of various grid graphs, in particular the Cartesian product of two paths, a path and a cycle, and two cycles. The upper bounds are derived by explicit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Aaron Slobodin , Gary MacGillivray , Wendy Myrvold

For a graph $G$ let $\gamma (G)$ be its domination number. We define a graph G to be (i) a hypo-efficient domination graph (or a hypo-$\mathcal{ED}$ graph) if $G$ has no efficient dominating set (EDS) but every graph formed by removing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Vladimir Samodivkin

Counting dominating sets in a graph $G$ is closely related to the neighborhood complex of $G$. We exploit this relation to prove that the number of dominating sets $d(G)$ of a graph is determined by the number of complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Irene Heinrich , Peter Tittmann

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

Let G be a simple undirected graph with no isolated vertex. A paired dominating set of G is a dominating set which induces a subgraph that has a perfect matching. The paired domination number of G, denoted by {\gamma}pr(G), is the size of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Bin Sheng , Changhong Lu

In this paper, we introduce new concepts of domination and packing functions in graphs, which generalize, respectively, the labelled dominating and packing functions defined by Lee and Chang in 2008, and Hinrichsen et al. in 2019. These…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-28 E. Hinrichsen , G. Nasini , N. Vansteenkiste

We commence the study of domination in the incidence graphs of combinatorial designs. Let $D$ be a combinatorial design and denote by $\gamma(D)$ the domination number of the incidence (Levy) graph of $D$. We obtain a number of results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Felix Goldberg , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Rogers Mathew

The aim of this work is to investigate the nonnegative signed domination number $\gamma^{NN}_s$ with emphasis on regular, ($r+1$)-clique-free graphs and trees. We give lower and upper bounds on $\gamma^{NN}_s$ for regular graphs and prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Doost Ali Mojdeh , Babak Samadi , Lutz Volkmann

While a number of bounds are known on the zero forcing number $Z(G)$ of a graph $G$ expressed in terms of the order of a graph and maximum or minimum degree, we present two bounds that are related to the (upper) total domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Boštjan Brešar , María Gracia Cornet , Tanja Dravec , Michael Henning

A numbering $f$ of a graph $G$ of order $n$ is a labeling that assigns distinct elements of the set $\left\{ 1,2,\ldots ,n\right\} $ to the vertices of $G$. The strength $\textrm{str}_{f}\left( G\right)$ of a numbering $f:V\left( G\right)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Yukio Takahashi , Rikio Ichishima , Francesc A. Muntaner-Batle

A locating-dominating set of a graph $G$ is a dominating set $D$ of $G$ with the additional property that every two distinct vertices outside $D$ have distinct neighbors in $D$; that is, for distinct vertices $u$ and $v$ outside $D$, $N(u)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Florent Foucaud , Michael A. Henning , Christian Löwenstein , Thomas Sasse

An edge dominating set $F$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is an \textit{edge cut dominating set} if the subgraph $\langle V,G-F \rangle$ is disconnected. The \textit{edge cut domination number} $\gamma_{ct}(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Todd Fenstermacher , Stephen Hedetniemi , Renu Laskar

The independence gap of a graph was introduced by Ekim et al. (2018) as a measure of how far a graph is from being well-covered. It is defined as the difference between the maximum and minimum size of a maximal independent set. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Tınaz Ekim , Didem Gözüpek , Ademir Hujdurović , Martin Milanič

Two inequalities bridging the three isolated graph invariants, incidence chromatic number, star arboricity and domination number, were established. Consequently, we deduced an upper bound and a lower bound of the incidence chromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Pak Kiu Sun , Wai Chee Shiu

A dominating set $D$ for a graph $G$ is a subset of $V(G)$ such that any vertex not in $D$ has at least one neighbor in $D$. The domination number $\gamma(G)$ is the size of a minimum dominating set in $G$. Vizing's conjecture from 1968…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-13 K. Choudhary , S. Margulies , I. V. Hicks

The concepts of domination and topological index hold great significance within the realm of graph theory. Therefore, it is pertinent to merge these concepts to derive the domination index of a graph. A novel concept of the domination index…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Kavya. R. Nair , M. S. Sunitha

From a recent perspective, the structure of a 3-connected graph is studied in this paper. It stipulates the minimum dominating set of a 3-connected graph. Also, we count the number of structures, as a consequence, the upper bound is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Misa Nakanishi