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Partial domination - the isolation number of a graph

Combinatorics 2015-05-01 v1

Abstract

We prove the following result: If GG be a connected graph on n6n \ge 6 vertices, then there exists a set of vertices DD with Dn3|D| \le \frac{n}{3} and such that V(G)N[D]V(G) \setminus N[D] is an independent set, where N[D]N[D] is the closed neighborhood of DD. Furthermore, the bound is sharp. This seems to be the first result in the direction of partial domination with constrained structure on the graph induced by the non-dominated vertices, which we further elaborate in this paper.

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@article{arxiv.1504.08055,
  title  = {Partial domination - the isolation number of a graph},
  author = {Yair Caro and Adriana Hansberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.08055},
  year   = {2015}
}

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28 pages

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