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Hypo-efficient domination and hypo-unique domination

Combinatorics 2016-01-12 v1

Abstract

For a graph GG let γ(G)\gamma (G) be its domination number. We define a graph G to be (i) a hypo-efficient domination graph (or a hypo-ED\mathcal{ED} graph) if GG has no efficient dominating set (EDS) but every graph formed by removing a single vertex from GG has at least one EDS, and (ii) a hypo-unique domination graph (a hypo-UD\mathcal{UD} graph) if GG has at least two minimum dominating sets,but GvG-v has a unique minimum dominating set for each vV(G)v\in V(G). We show that each hypo-UD\mathcal{UD} graph GG of order at least 33 is connected and γ(Gv)<γ(G)\gamma(G-v) < \gamma(G) for all vV(G)v \in V(G). We obtain a tight upper bound on the order of a hypo-P\mathcal{P} graph in terms of the domination number and maximum degree of the graph, where P{UD,ED}\mathcal{P} \in \{\mathcal{UD}, \mathcal{ED}\}. Families of circulant graphs which achieve these bounds are presented. We also prove that the bondage number of any hypo-UD\mathcal{UD} graph is not more than the minimum degree plus one.

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@article{arxiv.1601.02234,
  title  = {Hypo-efficient domination and hypo-unique domination},
  author = {Vladimir Samodivkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02234},
  year   = {2016}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure

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