A Roman dominating function on a graph G is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which f(u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v for which f(v) = 2. The weight of a Roman dominating function is the value f(V (G)) = ∑ u∈V (G) f(u). The Roman domination number of G, γR(G), is the minimum weight of a Roman dominating function on G. In this paper, we...

A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a graph G is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex v for which f(v) = 0, is adjacent to at least one vertex u for which f(u) = 2. The weight of a Roman dominating function f is the value f(V (G)) = ∑ v∈V (G) f(v). The Roman domination number of G, denoted by γR(G), is the minimum weight of an RDF on G. For a given graph,...

A Roman dominating function of a graph G = (V, E) is a function f : V → {0, 1, 2} such that every vertex x with f (x) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex y with f (y) = 2. The weight of a Roman dominating function is defined to be f (V ) = ∑ x∈V f (x), and the minimum weight of a Roman dominating function on a graph G is called the Roman domination number of G. In this paper we first answer ...

A subset X of edges of a graph G is called an edge dominating set of G if every edge not in X is adjacent to some edge in X . The edge domination number γ′(G) of G is the minimum cardinality taken over all edge dominating sets of G. An edge Roman dominating function of a graph G is a function f : E(G) → {0, 1, 2} such that every edge e with f(e) = 0 is adjacent to some edge e′ with f(e′) = 2. T...

In his article published in 1999, Ian Stewart discussed a strategy of Emperor Constantine for defending the Roman Empire. Motivated by this article, Cockayne et al.(2004) introduced the notion of Roman domination in graphs. Let G = (V,E) be a graph. A Roman dominating function of G is a function f : V → {0, 1, 2} such that every vertex v for which f(v) = 0 has a neighbor u with f(u) = 2. The we...

This paper is motivated by the concept of the signed k-domination problem and dedicated to the complexity of the problem on graphs. For any fixed nonnegative integer k, we show that the signed k-domination problem is NP-complete for doubly chordal graphs. For strongly chordal graphs and distance-hereditary graphs, we show that the signed k-domination problem can be solved in polynomial time. We...

A caterpillar is a tree with the property that after deleting all its vertices of degree 1 a simple path is obtained. The signed 2-domination number γ s (G) and the signed total 2-domination number γ st(G) of a graph G are variants of the signed domination number γs(G) and the signed total domination number γst(G). Their values for caterpillars are studied.

Let $D$ be a finite simple digraph with vertex set $V(D)$ and arcset $A(D)$. A twin signed total Roman dominating function (TSTRDF) on thedigraph $D$ is a function $f:V(D)rightarrow{-1,1,2}$ satisfyingthe conditions that (i) $sum_{xin N^-(v)}f(x)ge 1$ and$sum_{xin N^+(v)}f(x)ge 1$ for each $vin V(D)$, where $N^-(v)$(resp. $N^+(v)$) consists of all in-neighbors (resp.out-neighbors) of $v$, and (...