Let G = (V, E) be a simple graph with vertex set V and edge set E. A function f from V to a set {-1, 1} is said to be a nonnegative signed dominating function (NNSDF) if the sum of its function values over any closed neighborhood is at least zero. The weight of f is the sum of function values of vertices in V. The nonnegative signed domination number for a graph G equals the minimum weight of a...

A signed dominating function of a graph G with vertex set V is a function f : V → {−1, 1} such that for every vertex v in V the sum of the values of f at v and at every vertex u adjacent to v is at least 1. The weight of f is the sum of the values of f at every vertex of V . The signed domination number of G is the minimum weight of a signed dominating function of G. In this paper, we study the...

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...

Let G = (V , E) be a simple graph on vertex set V and define a function f : V → {−1,1}. The function f is a signed dominating function if for every vertex x ∈ V , the closed neighborhood of x contains more vertices with function value 1 than with −1. The signed domination number of G, γs(G), is the minimum weight of a signed dominating function on G. We give a sharp lower bound on the signed do...

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...