scholarly journals Domination and Fractional Domination in Digraphs

10.37236/7211 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ararat Harutyunyan ◽  
Tien-Nam Le ◽  
Alantha Newman ◽  
Stéphan Thomasse

In this paper, we investigate the relation between the (fractional) domination number of a digraph $G$ and the independence number of its underlying graph, denoted by $\alpha(G)$. More precisely, we prove that every digraph $G$ on $n$ vertices has fractional domination number at most $2\alpha(G)$ and domination number at most $2\alpha(G) \cdot \log{n}$. Both bounds are sharp.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 25-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Chatham

Abstract Given a (symmetrically-moving) piece from a chesslike game, such as shogi, and an n×n board, we can form a graph with a vertex for each square and an edge between two vertices if the piece can move from one vertex to the other. We consider two pieces from shogi: the dragon king, which moves like a rook and king from chess, and the dragon horse, which moves like a bishop and rook from chess. We show that the independence number for the dragon kings graph equals the independence number for the queens graph. We show that the (independent) domination number of the dragon kings graph is n − 2 for 4 ≤ n ≤ 6 and n − 3 for n ≥ 7. For the dragon horses graph, we show that the independence number is 2n − 3 for n ≥ 5, the domination number is at most n−1 for n ≥ 4, and the independent domination number is at most n for n ≥ 5.


2017 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nacéra Meddah ◽  
Mustapha Chellali

A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a graph [Formula: see text] is a function [Formula: see text] satisfying the condition that every vertex [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] is adjacent to at least one vertex [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] for which [Formula: see text]. The weight of a RDF is the sum [Formula: see text], and the minimum weight of a RDF [Formula: see text] is the Roman domination number [Formula: see text]. A subset [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is a [Formula: see text]-independent set of [Formula: see text] if every vertex of [Formula: see text] has at most one neighbor in [Formula: see text] The maximum cardinality of a [Formula: see text]-independent set of [Formula: see text] is the [Formula: see text]-independence number [Formula: see text] Both parameters are incomparable in general, however, we show that if [Formula: see text] is a tree, then [Formula: see text]. Moreover, all extremal trees attaining equality are characterized.


Author(s):  
Mohammad HABIBI ◽  
Ece YETKİN ÇELİKEL ◽  
Ci̇hat ABDİOĞLU

Let [Formula: see text] be a ring (not necessarily commutative) with identity. The clean graph [Formula: see text] of a ring [Formula: see text] is a graph with vertices in form [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is an idempotent and [Formula: see text] is a unit of [Formula: see text]; and two distinct vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are adjacent if and only if [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we focus on [Formula: see text], the subgraph of [Formula: see text] induced by the set [Formula: see text] is a nonzero idempotent element of [Formula: see text]. It is observed that [Formula: see text] has a crucial role in [Formula: see text]. The clique number, the chromatic number, the independence number and the domination number of the clean graph for some classes of rings are determined. Moreover, the connectedness and the diameter of [Formula: see text] are studied.


2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (05) ◽  
pp. 1187-1195 ◽  
Author(s):  
AYSUN AYTAC ◽  
TUFAN TURACI

For a vertex v of a graph G = (V,E), the independent domination number (also called the lower independence number) iv(G) of G relative to v is the minimum cardinality of a maximal independent set in G that contains v. The average lower independence number of G is [Formula: see text]. In this paper, this parameter is defined and examined, also the average lower independence number of gear graphs is considered. Then, an algorithm for the average lower independence number of any graph is offered.


10.37236/847 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Favaron

A dominating set $S$ of a graph $G$ is a global (strong) defensive alliance if for every vertex $v\in S$, the number of neighbors $v$ has in $S$ plus one is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has in $V\setminus S$. The dominating set $S$ is a global (strong) offensive alliance if for every vertex $v\in V\setminus S$, the number of neighbors $v$ has in $S$ is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has in $V\setminus S$ plus one. The minimum cardinality of a global defensive (strong defensive, offensive, strong offensive) alliance is denoted by $\gamma_a(G)$ ($\gamma_{\hat a}(G)$, $\gamma_o(G)$, $\gamma_{\hat o}(G))$. We compare each of the four parameters $\gamma_a, \gamma_{\hat a}, \gamma_o, \gamma_{\hat o}$ to the independent domination number $i$. We show that $i(G)\le \gamma ^2_a(G)-\gamma_a(G)+1$ and $i(G)\le \gamma_{\hat{a}}^2(G)-2\gamma_{\hat{a}}(G)+2$ for every graph; $i(G)\le \gamma ^2_a(G)/4 +\gamma_a(G)$ and $i(G)\le \gamma_{\hat{a}}^2(G)/4 +\gamma_{\hat{a}}(G)/2$ for every bipartite graph; $i(G)\le 2\gamma_a(G)-1$ and $i(G)=3\gamma_{\hat{a}}(G)/2 -1$ for every tree and describe the extremal graphs; and that $\gamma_o(T)\le 2i(T)-1$ and $i(T)\le \gamma_{\hat o}(T)-1$ for every tree. We use a lemma stating that $\beta(T)+2i(T)\ge n+1$ in every tree $T$ of order $n$ and independence number $\beta(T)$.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bikash Barman ◽  
Kukil Kalpa Rajkhowa

PurposeThe authors study the interdisciplinary relation between graph and algebraic structure ring defining a new graph, namely “non-essential sum graph”. The nonessential sum graph, denoted by NES(R), of a commutative ring R with unity is an undirected graph whose vertex set is the collection of all nonessential ideals of R and any two vertices are adjacent if and only if their sum is also a nonessential ideal of R.Design/methodology/approachThe method is theoretical.FindingsThe authors obtain some properties of NES(R) related with connectedness, diameter, girth, completeness, cut vertex, r-partition and regular character. The clique number, independence number and domination number of NES(R) are also found.Originality/valueThe paper is original.


Author(s):  
P. Jeyalakshmi

Let [Formula: see text] be a graph. A signed graph is an ordered pair [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a graph called the underlying graph of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a function called a signature or signing function. Motivated by the innovative paper of B. D. Acharya on domination in signed graphs, we consider another way of defining the concept of domination in signed graphs which looks more natural and has applications in social science. A subset [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is called a dominating set of [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text]. The domination number of [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of [Formula: see text]. Also, a dominating set [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] is called a [Formula: see text]-set of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we initiate a study on this parameter.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Kemal Toker

$\Gamma (SL_{X})$ is defined and has been investigated in (Toker, 2016). In this paper our main aim is to extend this study over  $\Gamma (SL_{X})$ to the tensor product. The diameter, radius, girth, domination number, independence number, clique number, chromatic number and chromatic index of $\Gamma (SL_{X_{1}})\otimes \Gamma (SL_{X_{2}})$ has been established. Moreover, we have determined when $\Gamma (SL_{X_{1}})\otimes \Gamma (SL_{X_{2}})$ is a perfect graph.


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