A paired-dominating set of a graph is a dominating set of vertices whose induced subgraph has a perfect matching, while the paired-domination number is the minimum cardinality of a paired-dominating set in the graph. Recently, Chen, Sun and Xing [Acta Mathematica Scientia Series A Chinese Edition 27(1) (2007), 166–170] proved that a cubic graph has paired-domination number at most three-fifths ...

We disprove a conjecture by Skupień that every tree of order n has at most 2 minimal dominating sets. We construct a family of trees of both parities of the order for which the number of minimal dominating sets exceeds 1.4167. We also provide an algorithm for listing all minimal dominating sets of a tree in time O(1.4656). This implies that every tree has at most 1.4656 minimal dominating sets.

A set S ⊆ V of vertices in a graph G = (V,E) is called a dominating set if every vertex in V −S is adjacent to a vertex in S. A dominating set which intersects every maximum independent set in G is called an independent transversal dominating set. The minimum cardinality of an independent transversal dominating set is called the independent transversal domination number of G and is denoted by γ...

A secure (total) dominating set of a graph G = (V, E) is a (total) dominating set X ⊆ V with the property that for each u ∈ V − X , there exists x ∈ X adjacent to u such that (X − {x}) ∪ {u} is (total) dominating. The smallest cardinality of a secure (total) dominating set is the secure (total) domination number γs(G) (γst(G)). We characterize graphs with equal total and secure total domination...

We settle two conjectures on domination-search, a game proposed by Fomin et.al. [1], one in affirmative and the other in negative. The two results presented here are (1) domination search number can be greater than domination-target number, (2) domination search number for asteroidal-triple-free graphs is at most 2.

We solve a number of problems posed by Hedetniemi, Hedetniemi, Laskar, Markus, and Slater concerning pairs of disjoint sets in graphs which are dominating or independent and dominating.

A subset D of ( ) V G is called an equitable dominating set if for every ( ) v V G D   there exists a vertex u D  such that ( ) uv E G  and | ( ) ( ) | 1 deg u deg v   . A subset D of ( ) V G is called an equitable independent set if for any , u D v   ( ) e N u for all { } v D u   . The concept of equi independent equitable domination is a combination of these two important concepts. ...

Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$. The domination polynomial of $G$ is the polynomial $D(G, x)=sum_{i=gamma(G)}^{n} d(G,i) x^{i}$, where $d(G,i)$ is the number of dominating sets of $G$ of size $i$ and $gamma(G)$ is the domination number of $G$. In this paper we present some families of graphs whose domination polynomials are unimodal.

A subset Q ⊆ V (G) is a dominating set of a graph G if each vertex in V (G) is either in Q or is adjacent to a vertex in Q. A dominating set Q of G is minimal if Q contains no dominating set of G as a proper subset. In this paper we study the number of minimal dominating sets in some classes of trees. Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C69