We improve the generalized upper bound for the k-tuple domination number given in [A. Gagarin and V.E. Zverovich, A generalized upper bound for the k-tuple domination number, Discrete Math. 308 no. 5–6 (2008), 880–885]. Precisely, we show that for any graph G, when k = 3, or k = 4 and d ≤ 3.2, γ×k(G) ≤ ln(δ−k + 2) + ln ( (k − 2)d + ∑k−2 m=2 (k−m) 4min{m, k−2−m} d̂m + d̂k−1 ) + 1 δ − k + 2 n, and,...

An edge of a graph is called dot-critical if its contraction decreases the domination number. A graph is said to be dot-critical if all of its edges are dot-critical. A vertex of a graph is called critical if its deletion decreases the domination number. In A note on the domination dot-critical graphs, Discrete Appl. Math. 157 (2009) 3743–3745, Chen and Shiu constructed for each even integer k ...

Rainbow connection number rc(G) of a connected graph G is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the edges of G, so that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are coloured the same. In this paper we show that for every connected graph G, with minimum degree at least 2, the rainbow connection number is upper bounded by γc(G) + 2, where γc(G) is th...

Let $D$ be a finite and simple digraph with vertex set $V(D)$‎.‎A signed total Roman $k$-dominating function (STR$k$DF) on‎‎$D$ is a function $f:V(D)rightarrow{-1‎, ‎1‎, ‎2}$ satisfying the conditions‎‎that (i) $sum_{xin N^{-}(v)}f(x)ge k$ for each‎‎$vin V(D)$‎, ‎where $N^{-}(v)$ consists of all vertices of $D$ from‎‎which arcs go into $v$‎, ‎and (ii) every vertex $u$ for which‎‎$f(u)=-1$ has a...

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 ...

Let G = (V, E) be a graph without isolated vertices. A set D ⊆ V is a d-distance paired-dominating set of G if D is a d-distance dominating set of G and the induced subgraph 〈D〉 has a perfect matching. The minimum cardinality of a d-distance paired-dominating set for graph G is the d-distance paired-domination number, denoted by γd p(G). In this paper, we study the ddistance paired-domination n...

A path in an edge-colored graph G is rainbow if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The rainbow connection number rc(G) of G is the smallest integer k for which there exists a k-edge-coloring of G such that every pair of distinct vertices of G is connected by a rainbow path. Let f(d) denote the minimum number such that rc(G) ≤ f(d) for each bridgeless graph G with diameter d. In this...

In this paper, we investigate domination number as well as signed domination numbers of Cay(G : S) for all cyclic group G of order n, where n in {p^m; pq} and S = { a^i : i in B(1; n)}. We also introduce some families of connected regular graphs gamma such that gamma_S(Gamma) in {2,3,4,5 }.