A signed edge domination function (or SEDF) of a simple graph $G=(V,E)$ is $f: E\rightarrow \{1,-1\}$ such that $\sum_{e'\in N[e]}f(e')\ge 1$ holds for each $e\in E$, where $N[e]$ the set edges in $G$ share at least one endpoint with $e$. Let $\gamma_s'(G)$ denote minimum value $f(G)$ among all SEDFs $f$, $f(G)=\sum_{e\in E}f(e)$.In 2005, Xu conjectured $\gamma_s'(G)\le n-1$, $n$ order $G$. Thi...

4 For a graph G = (V,E), a set S ⊆ V is a dominating set if every vertex in 5 V is either in S or is adjacent to a vertex in S. The domination number γ(G) 6 of G is the minimum order of a dominating set in G. A graph G is said to be 7 domination vertex critical, if γ(G− v) < γ(G) for any vertex v in G. A graph 8 G is domination edge critical, if γ(G∪ e) < γ(G) for any edge e / ∈ E(G). We 9 call...

In 2012, the first three authors established a relationship between the transversal number and the domination number of uniform hypergraphs. In this paper, we establish a relationship between the total transversal number and the total domination number of uniform hypergraphs. We prove tight asymptotic upper bounds on the total transversal number in terms of the number of vertices, the number of...

A set S ⊆ V of vertices in a graph G = (V,E) without isolated vertices is a total dominating set if every vertex of V is adjacent to some vertex in S. The total domination number γt(G) is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set of G. The total domination subdivision number sdγt(G) is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (each edge in G can be subdivided at most once) in...

It is known that the removal of an edge from a graph G cannot decrease a domination number γ(G) and can increase it by at most one. Thus we can write that γ(G) ≤ γ(G − e) ≤ γ(G) + 1 when an arbitrary edge e is removed. Here we present similar inequalities for the weakly connected domination number γw and the connected domination number γc, i.e., we show that γw(G) ≤ γw(G− e) ≤ γw(G) + 1 and γc(...

Let G be a (p, q)-graph with edge domination number γ′ and edge domatic number d′. In this paper we characterize connected graphs for which γ′ = p/2 and graphs for which γ′ + d′ = q + 1. We also characterize trees and unicyclic graphs for which γ′ = bp/2c and γ′ = q −∆′, where ∆′ denotes the maximum degree of an edge in G.

As a fundamental research object, the minimum edge dominating set (MEDS) problem is of both theoretical and practical interest. However, determining size MEDS number all MEDSs in general graph NP-hard, it thus makes sense to find special graphs for which can be exactly solved. In this paper, we study analytically pseudofractal scale-free web Sierpiński gasket with same vertices edges. For graph...

A dominating set of vertices S of a graph G is connected if the subgraph G[S] is connected. Let c(G) denote the size of any smallest connected dominating set in G. A graph G is k-connected-critical if c(G)= k, but if any edge e ∈ E(Ḡ) is added to G, then c(G+ e) k − 1. This is a variation on the earlier concept of criticality of edge addition with respect to ordinary domination where a graph G ...