Locating Equitable Domination and Independence Subdivision Numbers of Graphs

Domination and independence subdivision numbers of graphs

The domination subdivision number sdγ(G) of a graph is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (where an edge can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the domination number. Arumugam showed that this number is at most three for any tree, and conjectured that the upper bound of three holds for any graph. Although we do not prove this interesting conjecture, we give an upp...

Total domination subdivision numbers of graphs

A set S of vertices in a graph G = (V,E) is a total dominating set of G if every vertex of V is adjacent to a vertex in S. The total domination number of G is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set of G. The total domination subdivision number of G is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (where each edge in G can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the tot...

A note on domination and independence-domination numbers of graphs∗

Vizing’s conjecture is true for graphs G satisfying γ(G) = γ(G), where γ(G) is the domination number of a graph G and γ(G) is the independence-domination number of G, that is, the maximum, over all independent sets I in G, of the minimum number of vertices needed to dominate I . The equality γ(G) = γ(G) is known to hold for all chordal graphs and for chordless cycles of length 0 (mod 3). We pro...

Domination Subdivision Numbers

A set S of vertices of a graph G = (V,E) is a dominating set if every vertex of V − S is adjacent to some vertex in S. The domination number γ(G) is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of G, and the domination subdivision number sdγ(G) is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (each edge in G can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the domination number. Arumug...

Total domination and total domination subdivision numbers