A three-valued function f defined on the vertices of a graph G = (V,E), f : V , ( 1 , 0 , 1), is a minus dominating function if the sum of its function values over any closed neighborhood is at least one. That is, for every v E V, f(N[v])>~ 1, where N[v] consists of v and every vertex adjacent to v. The weight of a minus dominating function is f ( V ) = ~ f (v) , over all vertices v E V. The mi...

A function f defined on the vertices of a graph G = (V ,E), f : V → {−1, 0, 1} is a total minus dominating function (TMDF) if the sum of its values over any open neighborhood is at least one. The weight of a TMDF is the sum of its function values over all vertices. The total minus domination number, denoted by −t (G), of G is the minimum weight of a TMDF on G. In this paper, a sharp lower bound...

We introduce one of many classes of problems which can be defined in terms of 3-valued functions on the vertices of a graph G = (V, E) of the form f : V + { 1, 0, l}. Such a fknction is said to be a minus dominating function if the sum of its function values over any closed neighborhood is at least one. That is, for every t’ E V, ,f(N[r~])> 1, where N[a] consists of 1: and every vertex adjacent...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph. A subset S of V is called a dominating set if each vertex of V −S has at least one neighbor in S. The domination number γ(G) equals the minimum cardinality of a dominating set in G. A minus dominating function on G is a function f : V → {−1, 0, 1} such that f(N [v]) = ∑ u∈N [v] f(u) ≥ 1 for each v ∈ V , where N [v] is the closed neighborhood of v. The minus domination ...

Let $kgeq 1$ be an integer, and let $G$ be a graph. A {it$k$-rainbow dominating function} (or a {it $k$-RDF}) of $G$ is afunction $f$ from the vertex set $V(G)$ to the family of all subsetsof ${1,2,ldots ,k}$ such that for every $vin V(G)$ with$f(v)=emptyset $, the condition $bigcup_{uinN_{G}(v)}f(u)={1,2,ldots,k}$ is fulfilled, where $N_{G}(v)$ isthe open neighborhood of $v$. The {it weight} o...

Let $kgeq 1$ be an integer, and $G=(V,E)$ be a finite and simplegraph. The closed neighborhood $N_G[e]$ of an edge $e$ in a graph$G$ is the set consisting of $e$ and all edges having a commonend-vertex with $e$. A signed Roman edge $k$-dominating function(SREkDF) on a graph $G$ is a function $f:E rightarrow{-1,1,2}$ satisfying the conditions that (i) for every edge $e$of $G$, $sum _{xin N[e]} f...

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$. For any integer $kge 1$, a signed (total) $k$-dominating functionis a function $f: V(G) rightarrow { -1, 1}$ satisfying $sum_{xin N[v]}f(x)ge k$ ($sum_{xin N(v)}f(x)ge k$)for every $vin V(G)$, where $N(v)$ is the neighborhood of $v$ and $N[v]=N(v)cup{v}$. The minimum of the values$sum_{vin V(G)}f(v)$, taken over all signed (total) $k$-dominating functi...

A function f :V (G) → {−1, 0, 1} defined on the vertices of a graph G is a minus total dominating function (MTDF) if the sum of its function values over any open neighborhood is at least one. An MTDF f is minimal if there does not exist an MTDF g:V (G) → {−1, 0, 1}, f = g, for which g(v) f (v) for every v ∈ V (G). The weight of an MTDF is the sum of its function values over all vertices. The mi...

In this paper we consider a kind of higher-order evolution equation as^{kt^{k} + ^{k&minus1}u/t^{k&minus1} +• • •+ut &minus{delta}u= f (u, {delta}u,x). For this equation, we investigate nonglobal solution, blow-up in finite time and instantaneous blow-up under some assumption on k, f and initial data. In this paper we employ the Test function method, the eneralized convexity method an...

Let Y be a subset of real numbers. A Y dominating function of a graph G = (V, E) is a function f : V → Y such that u∈NG[v] f(u) ≥ 1 for all vertices v ∈ V , where NG[v] = {v} ∪ {u|(u, v) ∈ E}. Let f(S) = u∈S f(u) for any subset S of V and let f(V ) be the weight of f . The Y -domination problem is to find a Y -dominating function of minimum weight for a graph. In this paper, we study the variat...