The weakly connected domination subdivision number sdγw(G) of a connected graph G is the minimum number of edges which must be subdivided (where each edge can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the weakly connected domination number. The graph is strongγw-subdivisible if for each edge uv ∈ E(G) we have γw(Guv) > γw(G), where Guv is a graph G with subdivided edge uv. The graph is s...

A graph is called γ -critical if the removal of any vertex from the graph decreases the dominationnumber,while a graphwith no isolated vertex isγt -critical if the removal of any vertex that is not adjacent to a vertex of degree 1 decreases the total domination number. A γt -critical graph that has total domination number k, is called k-γt -critical. In this paper, we introduce a class of k-γt ...

A set D ⊆ V of a graph G = (V,E) is called an outer-connected dominating set of G if for all v ∈ V , |NG[v] ∩ D| ≥ 1, and the induced subgraph of G on V \D is connected. The Minimum Outer-connected Domination problem is to find an outer-connected dominating set of minimum cardinality of the input graph G. Given a positive integer k and a graph G = (V,E), the Outer-connected Domination Decision ...

The inflated graph GI of a graph G with n(G) vertices is obtained from G by replacing every vertex of degree d of G by a clique, which is isomorph to the complete graph Kd, and each edge (xi, xj) of G is replaced by an edge (u, v) in such a way that u ∈ Xi, v ∈ Xj , and two different edges of G are replaced by non-adjacent edges of GI . For integer k ≥ 1, the k-tuple total domination number γ ×...

If G is a graph without isolated vertices, and if rand s are positive integers, then the (r, s)-domination number 'Yr,s(G) of G is the cardinality of a smallest vertex set D such that every vertex not in D is within distance r from some vertex in D, while every vertex in D is within distance s from another vertex in D. This generalizes the total domination number 'Yt(G) = 'Yl,l(G). Let T( G) de...

A k-dominating set of a graph G is a set S of vertices of G such that every vertex outside of S has k neighbors in S. The k-domination number of G, written γk(G), is the size of the smallest k-dominating set in G. In this paper, we derive sharp upper and lower bounds on γk(G) + γk(G) and γk(G)γk(G), where G is the complement of G. We use the results for k = 2 to prove a conjecture of Alon, Balo...

Given a simple graph G = (V, E) and a fixed positive integer k. In a graph G, a vertex is said to dominate itself and all of its neighbors. A set D ⊆ V is called a k-tuple dominating set if every vertex in V is dominated by at least k vertices of D. The k-tuple domination problem is to find a minimum cardinality k-tuple dominating set. This problem is NP-complete for general graphs. In this pap...

Let D be a finite and simple digraph with vertex set V (D). A signed total Roman k-dominating function (STRkDF) on D is a function f : V (D) → {−1, 1, 2} satisfying the conditions that (i) ∑ x∈N−(v) f(x) ≥ k for each v ∈ V (D), where N−(v) consists of all vertices of D from which arcs go into v, and (ii) every vertex u for which f(u) = −1 has an inner neighbor v for which f(v) = 2. The weight o...

Let G = (V,E) be a simple and undirected graph. For some integer k > 1, a set D ⊆ V is said to be a k-dominating set in G if every vertex v of G outside D has at least k neighbors in D. Furthermore, for some real number α with 0 < α 6 1, a set D ⊆ V is called an α-dominating set in G if every vertex v of G outside D has at least α×dv neighbors in D, where dv is the degree of v in G. The cardina...

A set S of vertices is defined to be a power dominating set (PDS) of a graph G if every vertex and every edge in G can be monitored by the set S according to a set of rules for power system monitoring. The minimum cardinality of a PDS of G is its power domination number. In this article, we find upper bounds for the power domination number of some families of Cartesian products of graphs: the c...