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Extremal hypergraphs for matching number and domination number

Combinatorics 2016-11-22 v1

Abstract

A matching in a hypergraph H\mathcal{H} is a set of pairwise disjoint hyperedges. The matching number ν(H)\nu(\mathcal{H}) of H\mathcal{H} is the size of a maximum matching in H\mathcal{H}. A subset DD of vertices of H\mathcal{H} is a dominating set of H\mathcal{H} if for every vVDv\in V\setminus D there exists uDu\in D such that uu and vv lie in an hyperedge of H\mathcal{H}. The cardinality of a minimum dominating set of H\mathcal{H} is the domination number of H\mathcal{H}, denoted by γ(H)\gamma(\mathcal{H}). It was proved that γ(H)(r1)ν(H)\gamma(\mathcal{H})\leq (r-1)\nu(\mathcal{H}) for rr-uniform hypergraphs and the 2-uniform hypergraphs (graphs) achieving equality γ(H)=ν(H)\gamma(\mathcal{H})=\nu(\mathcal{H}) have been characterized. In this paper we generalize the inequality γ(H)(r1)ν(H)\gamma(\mathcal{H})\leq (r-1)\nu(\mathcal{H}) to arbitrary hypergraph of rank rr and we completely characterize the extremal hypergraphs H\mathcal{H} of rank 33 achieving equality γ(H)=(r1)ν(H)\gamma(\mathcal{H})=(r-1)\nu(\mathcal{H}).

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@article{arxiv.1611.06629,
  title  = {Extremal hypergraphs for matching number and domination number},
  author = {Erfang Shan and Yanxia Dong and Liying Kang and Shan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06629},
  year   = {2016}
}
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