The domination number γ(G), the independent domination number ι(G), the connected domination number γc(G), and the paired domination number γp(G) of a graph G (without isolated vertices, if necessary) are related by the simple inequalities γ(G) ≤ ι(G), γ(G) ≤ γc(G), and γ(G) ≤ γp(G). Very little is known about the graphs that satisfy one of these inequalities with equality. I.E. Zverovich and V...

Abstract. In this paper we give tight upper bounds on the total domination number, the weakly connected domination number and the connected domination number of a graph in terms of order and Euler characteristic. We also present upper bounds for the restrained bondage number, the total restrained bondage number and the restricted edge connectivity of graphs in terms of the orientable/nonorienta...

The total domination number of a simple, undirected graph G is the minimum cardinality of a subset D of the vertices of G such that each vertex of G is adjacent to some vertex in D. In 2007 Graffiti.pc, a program that makes graph theoretical conjectures, was used to generate conjectures on the total domination number of connected graphs. More recently, the program was used to generate conjectur...

Let / be an integer-valued function defined on the vertex set V(G) of a graph G. A subset D of V(G) is an /-dominating set if each vertex x outside D is adjacent to at least f(x) vertices in D. The minimum number of vertices in an /-dominating set is denned to be the /-domination number, denoted by 7/(G). In a similar way one can define the connected and total /-domination numbers 7 C| /(G) and...

Zverovich [Discuss. Math. Graph Theory 23 (2003), 159–162.] has proved that the domination number and connected domination number are equal on all connected graphs without induced P5 and C5. Here we show (with an independent proof) that the following stronger result is also valid: Every P5-free and C5-free connected graph contains a minimum-size dominating set that induces a complete subgraph.

In this paper, we introduce the concept of k-power domination which is a common generalization of domination and power domination. We extend several known results for power domination to k-power domination. Concerning the complexity of the k-power domination problem, we first show that deciding whether a graph admits a k-power dominating set of size at most t is NP-complete for chordal graphs a...

The ratio of the connected domination number, γc, and the domination number, γ, is strictly bounded from above by 3. It was shown by Zverovich that for every connected (P5, C5)-free graph, γc = γ. In this paper, we investigate the interdependence of γ and γc in the class of (Pk, Ck)-free graphs, for k ≥ 6. We prove that for every connected (P6, C6)-free graph, γc ≤ γ+1 holds, and there is a fam...

Let G = (V,E) be a connected undirected graph. For any vertex v ∈ V , the closed neighborhood of v is N [v] = {v} ∪ {u ∈ V | uv ∈ E }. For S ⊆ V , the closed neighborhood of S is N [S] = ⋃ v∈S N [v]. The subgraph weakly induced by S is 〈S〉w = (N [S], E ∩ (S × N [S])). A set S is a weakly-connected dominating set of G if S is dominating and 〈S〉w is connected. The weakly-connected domination numb...