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The domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, named Dominator and Staller. They alternatively select vertices of $G$ such that each chosen vertex enlarges the set of vertices dominated before the move on it. Dominator's goal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Boštjan Brešar , Paul Dorbec , Sandi Klavžar , Gašper Košmrlj

In the domination game, introduced by Bre\v{s}ar, Klav\v{z}ar and Rall in 2010, Dominator and Staller alternately select a vertex of a graph $G$. A move is legal if the selected vertex $v$ dominates at least one new vertex -- that is, if we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Csilla Bujtás

Given a set $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, we call a copy of a graph in $\mathcal{F}$ an $\mathcal{F}$-graph. The $\mathcal{F}$-isolation number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\iota(G, \mathcal{F})$, is the size of a smallest set $D$ of vertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Peter Borg , Dayle Scicluna

Domination game [SIAM J.\ Discrete Math.\ 24 (2010) 979--991] and total domination game [Graphs Combin.\ 31 (2015) 1453--1462] are by now well established games played on graphs by two players, named Dominator and Staller. In this paper,…

This paper introduces the notion of an $(\iota,q)$-critical graph. The isolation number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\iota(G)$ and also known as the vertex-edge domination number of $G$, is the size of a smallest subset $D$ of the vertex set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Karl Bartolo , Peter Borg , Magda Dettlaff , Magdalena Lemańska , Paweł Żyliński

The (total) connected domination game on a graph $G$ is played by two players, Dominator and Staller, according to the standard (total) domination game with the additional requirement that at each stage of the game the selected vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Csilla Bujtás , Michael A. Henning , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

The domination game on a graph $G$ (introduced by B. Bre\v{s}ar, S. Klav\v{z}ar, D.F. Rall \cite{BKR2010}) consists of two players, Dominator and Staller, who take turns choosing a vertex from $G$ such that whenever a vertex is chosen by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Hovhannes G. Tananyan

The isolation number $\iota(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a set $A\subset V(G)$ such that the subgraph induced by the vertices that are not in the union of the closed neighborhoods of vertices in $A$ has no edges. The…

A vertex $u$ in a graph $G$ totally dominates a vertex $v$ if $u$ is adjacent to $v$ in $G$. A total dominating set of $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices of $G$ such that every vertex of $G$ is totally dominated by a vertex in $S$. The indicated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Michael A. Henning , Douglas F. Rall

For a graph $G$, a vertex subset $S \subseteq V(G)$ is said to be $K_{k}$-isolating if $G - N_{G}[S]$ does not contain $K_{k}$ as a subgraph. The $K_{k}$-isolation number of $G$, denoted by $\iota_{k}(G)$, is the minimum cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Odile Favaron , Pawaton Kaemawichanurat

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 2015-12-10 Michael A. Henning , Douglas F. Rall

For a connected $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a set $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, let $\iota(G,\mathcal{F})$ denote the size of a smallest set $D$ of vertices of $G$ such that the graph obtained from $G$ by deleting the closed neighbourhood of $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Peter Borg

Consider the following Maker-Breaker type game played by Toucher and Isolator on the edges of a graph $G$ with first move given to Toucher. The aim of Isolator is to maximise the number of vertices which are not incident to any edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Eero Raty

We introduce a new positional game called `Toucher-Isolator', which is a quantitative version of a Maker-Breaker type game. The playing board is the set of edges of a given graph G, and the two players, Toucher and Isolator, claim edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Chris Dowden , Mihyun Kang , Mirjana Mikalački , Miloš Stojaković

An isolating set of a graph is a set of vertices $S$ such that, if $S$ and its neighborhood is removed, only isolated vertices remain; and the isolation number is the minimum size of such a set. It is known that for every connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Geoffrey Boyer , Wayne Goddard

In the Toucher-Isolator game, introduced recently by Dowden, Kang, Mikala\v{c}ki and Stojakovi\'{c}, Toucher and Isolator alternately claim an edge from a graph such that Toucher aims to touch as many vertices as possible, while Isolator…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Sopon Boriboon , Teeradej Kittipassorn

The connected domination game is played just as the domination game, with an additional requirement that at each stage of the game the vertices played induce a connected subgraph. The number of moves in a D-game (an S-game, resp.) on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

The containment game is a full information game for two players, initialised with a set of occupied vertices in an infinite connected graph $G$. On the $t$-th turn, the first player, called Spreader, extends the occupied set to $g(t)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Ohad Noy Feldheim , Itamar Israeli

Let $G$ be a graph. A subset $D \subseteq V(G)$ is called a 1-isolating set of $G$ if $\Delta(G-N[D]) \leq 1$, that is, $G-N[D]$ consists of isolated edges and isolated vertices only. The $1$-isolation number of $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Yirui Huang , Gang Zhang , Xian'an Jin

We consider a biased version of Maker-Breaker domination games, which were recently introduced by Gledel, Ir{\v{s}}i{\v{c}}, and Klav{\v{z}}ar. Two players, Dominator and Staller, alternatingly claim vertices of a graph $G$ where Dominator…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Ali Deniz Bagdas , Dennis Clemens , Fabian Hamann , Yannick Mogge