A dominating set D of G is called a split dominating set of G if the subgraph induced by the subset V (G) − D is disconnected. The cardinality of a minimum split dominating set is called the minimum split domination number of G. Such subset and such number was introduced in [4]. In [2], [3] the authors estimated the domination number of products of graphs. More precisely, they were study produc...

Rainbow is a fast asymmetric multivariate signature algorithm proposed by J. Ding and D. Schmidt in [5]. This paper presents a cryptanalysis of Rainbow which enables an attacker provided with the public key to recover an equivalent representation of the secret key, thus allowing her to efficiently forge a signature of any message. For the set of parameter values recommended by the authors of Ra...

The power system monitoring problem asks for as few as possible measurement devices to be put in an electric power system. The problem has a graph theory model involving power dominating sets in graphs. The power domination number γP (G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a power dominating set. Dorfling and Henning [2] determined the power domination number of the Cartesian product of paths. I...

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 ) = P 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 answer an open pr...

A set D of vertices in a connected graph G is called a k-dominating set if every vertex in G − D is within distance k from some vertex of D. The k-domination number of G, γk(G), is the minimum cardinality over all k-dominating sets of G. A graph G is k-distance domination-critical if γk(G − x) < γk(G) for any vertex x in G. This work considers properties of k-distance domination-critical graphs...

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...

Nine variations of the concept of domination in a simple graph are identified as fundamental domination concepts, and a unified approach is introduced for studying them. For each variation, the minimum cardinality of a subset of dominating elements is the corresponding fundamental domination number. It is observed that, for each nontrivial connected graph, at most five of these nine numbers can...

The k-domination number γk(G) of a simple, undirected graph G is the order of a smallest subset D of the vertices of G such that each vertex of G is either in D or adjacent to at least k vertices in D. In 2010, the conjecture-generating computer program, Graffiti.pc, was queried for upperbounds on the 2-domination number. In this paper we prove new upper bounds on the 2-domination number of a g...

In this paper, we present new upper bounds for the global domination and Roman domination numbers and also prove that these results are asymptotically best possible. Moreover, we give upper bounds for the restrained domination and total restrained domination numbers for large classes of graphs, and show that, for almost all graphs, the restrained domination number is equal to the domination num...

A vertex-colored graph G is rainbow vertex-connected if two vertices are connected by a path whose internal vertices have distinct colors. The rainbow vertex-connection number of a connected graph G, denoted by rvc(G), is the smallest number of colors that are needed in order to make G rainbow vertex-connected. If for every pair u, v of distinct vertices, G contains a vertex-rainbow u−v geodesi...