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On Minimum Dominating Sets in cubic and (claw,H)-free graphs

Combinatorics 2020-02-28 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Given a graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E), SVS\subseteq V is a dominating set if every vVSv\in V\setminus S is adjacent to an element of SS. The Minimum Dominating Set problem asks for a dominating set with minimum cardinality. It is well known that its decision version is NPNP-complete even when GG is a claw-free graph. We give a complexity dichotomy for the Minimum Dominating Set problem for the class of (claw,H)(claw, H)-free graphs when HH has at most six vertices. In an intermediate step we show that the Minimum Dominating Set problem is NPNP-complete for cubic graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2002.12232,
  title  = {On Minimum Dominating Sets in cubic and (claw,H)-free graphs},
  author = {Valentin Bouquet and François Delbot and Christophe Picouleau and Stéphane Rovedakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12232},
  year   = {2020}
}
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