In this paper we study the NP-complete problem of finding small k-dominating sets in general graphs, which allow k−1 nodes to fail and still dominate the graph. The classic minimum dominating set problem is a special case with k = 1. We show that the approach of having at least k dominating nodes in the neighborhood of every node is not optimal. For each α > 1 it can give solutions k α times la...

For MSO2-expressible problems like Edge Dominating Set or Hamiltonian Cycle, it was open for a long time whether there is an algorithm which given a clique-width k-expression of an n-vertex graph runs in time f(k) · nO(1) for some function f . Recently, Fomin et al. (SIAM. J. Computing, 2014) presented several lower bounds; for instance, there are no f(k) · n-time algorithms for Edge Dominating...

We propose a fast silent self-stabilizing building a k-independent dominating set, named FID. The convergence of protocol FID, is established for any computation under the unfair distributed scheduler. FID reaches a terminal (also legitimate) configuration in at most 4n+k rounds, where n is the network size. FID requires (k + 1)log(n+ 1) bits per node. keywords distributed computing, fault tole...

It is shown that the problem of covering an n x n chessboard with a minimum number of queens on a major diagonal is related to the number-theoretic function rj(n), the smallest number of integers in a subset of {l,..., n} which must contain three terms in arithmetic progression. Several problems concerning the covering of chessboards by queens have been studied in the literature [2]. In this no...

A path in an edge-colored graph G, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of G are colored the same. For a κ-connected graph G and an integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ κ, the rainbow k-connectivity rck(G) of G is defined as the minimum integer j for which there exists a j-edgecoloring of G such that every two distinct vertices of G are connected by k interna...

The k-dominating graph Dk(G) of a graph G is defined on the vertex set consisting of dominating sets of G with cardinality at most k, two such sets being adjacent if they differ by either adding or deleting a single vertex. In this paper, after presenting several basic properties of k-dominating graphs, it is proved that if G is a graph with no isolates, of order n ≥ 2, and with G ∼= Dk(G), the...

Suppose that k is a non-negative integer and a bipartite multigraph G is the union of N = ⌊ k + 2 k + 1 n ⌋ − (k + 1) matchings M1, . . . ,MN , each of size n. We show that G has a rainbow matching of size n− k, i.e. a matching of size n− k with all edges coming from different Mi’s. Several choices of parameters relate to known results and conjectures. Suppose that a multigraph G is given with ...

A path in an edge-colored graph G, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. For a κ-connected graph G and an integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ κ, the rainbow k-connectivity rck(G) of G is defined as the minimum integer j for which there exists a j-edge-coloring of G such that every two distinct vertices of G are connected by k...