The independent domination number of a graph is the smallest cardinality of an independent set that dominates the graph. In this paper we consider the independent domination number of triangle-free graphs. We improve several of the known bounds as a function of the order and minimum degree, thereby answering conjectures of Haviland.

The six basic parameters relating to domination, independence and irredundance satisfy a chain of inequalities given by ir ≤ γ ≤ i ≤ β0 ≤ Γ ≤ IR where ir, IR are the irredundance and upper irredundance numbers, γ,Γ are the domination and upper domination numbers and i, β0 are the independent domination number and independence number respectively. In this paper, we introduce the concept of indep...

A ρ-independent set S in a graph is parameterized by a set ρ of non-negative integers that constrains how the independent set S can dominate the remaining vertices (∀v 6∈ S : |N(v) ∩ S| ∈ ρ.) For all values of ρ, we classify as either NP-complete or polynomial-time solvable the problems of deciding if a given graph has a ρ-independent set. We complement this with approximation algorithms and in...

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 set S of vertices in a graph G is an independent dominating set of G if S is an independent set and every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S. The independent domination number of G, denoted by i(G), is the minimum cardinality of an independent dominating set. In this paper, we show that if G �= C5 ✷K2 is a connected cubic graph of order n that does not have a subgraph isomorphic to ...

We review a characterization of domination perfect graphs in terms of forbidden induced subgraphs obtained by Zverovich and Zverovich [12] using a computer code. Then we apply it to a problem of unique domination in graphs recently proposed by Fischermann and Volkmann. 1 Domination perfect graphs Let G be a graph. A set D ⊆ V (G) is a dominating set of G if each vertex of G either belongs to D ...

Let γ(G) and ι(G) be the domination and independent domination numbers of a graph G, respectively. In this paper, we define the Price of Independence of a graph G as the ratio ι(G) γ(G) . Firstly, we bound the Price of Independence by values depending on the number of vertices. Secondly, we consider the question of computing the Price of Independence of a given graph. Unfortunately, the decisio...