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A characterization of domination weak bicritical graphs with large diameter

Combinatorics 2016-08-09 v1

Abstract

The domination number of a graph GG, denoted by γ(G)\gamma (G), is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of GG. A vertex of a graph is called critical if its deletion decreases the domination number, and a graph is called critical if its all vertices are critical. A graph GG is called weak bicritical if for every non-critical vertex xV(G)x\in V(G), GxG-x is a critical graph with γ(Gx)=γ(G)\gamma (G-x)=\gamma (G). In this paper, we characterize the connected weak bicritical graphs GG whose diameter is exactly 2γ(G)22\gamma (G)-2. This is a generalization of some known results concerning the diameter of graphs with a domination-criticality.

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@article{arxiv.1608.02154,
  title  = {A characterization of domination weak bicritical graphs with large diameter},
  author = {Michitaka Furuya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02154},
  year   = {2016}
}

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