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The Domination Equivalence Classes of Paths

Combinatorics 2017-10-12 v1

Abstract

A dominating set SS of a graph GG of order nn is a subset of the vertices of GG such that every vertex is either in SS or adjacent to a vertex of SS. %The domination number GG, denoted γ(G)\gamma (G), is the cardinality of the smallest dominating set of GG. The domination polynomial is defined by D(G,x)=d(G,i)xiD(G,x) = \sum d(G,i)x^i where d(G,i)d(G,i) is the number of dominating sets in GG with cardinality ii. Two graphs GG and HH are considered D\mathcal{D}-equivalent if D(G,x)=D(H,x)D(G,x)=D(H,x). The equivalence class of GG, denoted [G][G], is the set of all graphs D\mathcal{D}-equivalent to GG. Extending previous results, we determine the equivalence classes of all paths.

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@article{arxiv.1710.03871,
  title  = {The Domination Equivalence Classes of Paths},
  author = {Iain Beaton and Jason I. Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03871},
  year   = {2017}
}

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