English

Which graphs occur as $\gamma$-graphs?

Combinatorics 2020-04-06 v2

Abstract

The γ\gamma-graph of a graph GG is the graph whose vertices are labelled by the minimum dominating sets of GG, in which two vertices are adjacent when their corresponding minimum dominating sets (each of size γ(G)\gamma(G)) intersect in a set of size γ(G)1\gamma(G)-1. We extend the notion of a γ\gamma-graph from distance-1-domination to distance-dd-domination, and ask which graphs HH occur as γ\gamma-graphs for a given value of~d1d \ge 1. We show that, for all dd, the answer depends only on whether the vertices of HH admit a labelling consistent with the adjacency condition for a conventional γ\gamma-graph. This result relies on an explicit construction for a graph having an arbitrary prescribed set of minimum distance-dd-dominating sets. We then completely determine the graphs that admit such a labelling among the wheel graphs, the fan graphs, and the graphs on at most six vertices. We connect the question of whether a graph admits such a labelling with previous work on induced subgraphs of Johnson graphs.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.01583,
  title  = {Which graphs occur as $\gamma$-graphs?},
  author = {Matt DeVos and Adam Dyck and Jonathan Jedwab and Samuel Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01583},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

28 pages, 5 figures, 2 appendices. Simplified proof of Theorem 1.5 and some minor revisions

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