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Domination in direct products of complete graphs

Combinatorics 2019-08-08 v1

Abstract

Let XnX_{n} denote the unitary Cayley graph of Z/nZ\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}. We continue the study of cases in which the inequality γt(Xn)g(n)\gamma_t(X_n) \le g(n) is strict, where γt\gamma_t denotes the total domination number, and gg is the arithmetic function known as Jacobsthal's function. The best that is currently known in this direction is a construction of Burcroff which gives a family of nn with arbitrarily many prime factors that satisfy γt(Xn)g(n)2\gamma_t(X_n) \le g(n)-2. We present a new interpretation of the problem which allows us to use recent results on the computation of Jacobsthal's function to construct nn with arbitrarily many prime factors that satisfy γt(Xn)g(n)16\gamma_t(X_n) \le g(n)-16. We also present new lower bounds on the domination numbers of direct products of complete graphs, which in turn allow us to derive new asymptotic lower bounds on γ(Xn)\gamma(X_n), where γ\gamma denotes the domination number. Finally, resolving a question of Defant and Iyer, we completely classify all graphs G=i=1tKniG = \prod_{i=1}^t K_{n_i} satisfying γ(G)=t+2\gamma(G) = t+2.

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@article{arxiv.1908.02445,
  title  = {Domination in direct products of complete graphs},
  author = {Harish Vemuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02445},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages

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