Domination by kings is oddly even
Combinatorics
2024-07-30 v1
Abstract
The king graph consists of all locations on an chessboard, where edges are legal moves of a chess king. %where each vertex represents a square on a chessboard and each edge is a legal move. Let denote its domination polynomial, i.e., where the sum is over all dominating sets . We prove that . In particular, the number of dominating sets of even size and the number of odd size differs by . %The numbers can not be equal because the total number of dominating sets is always odd. This property does not hold for king graphs on a cylinder or a torus, or for the grid graph. But it holds for -dimensional kings, where .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.19344,
title = {Domination by kings is oddly even},
author = {Cristopher Moore and Stephan Mertens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19344},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables