A lower bound on the double outer-independent domination number of a tree

A Lower Bound on the Double Outer-independent Domination Number of a Tree

A vertex of a graph is said to dominate itself and all of its neighbors. A double outer-independent dominating set of a graph G is a set D of vertices of G such that every vertex of G is dominated by at least two vertices of D, and the set V (G) \D is independent. The double outer-independent domination number of a graph G, denoted by γ d (G), is the minimum cardinality of a double outer-indepe...

Bounds on the outer-independent double Italian domination number

An outer-independent double Italian dominating function (OIDIDF)on a graph $G$ with vertex set $V(G)$ is a function$f:V(G)longrightarrow {0,1,2,3}$ such that if $f(v)in{0,1}$ for a vertex $vin V(G)$ then $sum_{uin N[v]}f(u)geq3$,and the set $ {uin V(G)|f(u)=0}$ is independent. The weight ofan OIDIDF $f$ is the value $w(f)=sum_{vin V(G)}f(v)$. Theminimum weight of an OIDIDF on a graph $G$ is cal...

Outer independent Roman domination number of trees

‎A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a graph G=(V,E) is a function  f : V → {0, 1, 2}  such that every vertex u for which f(u)=0 is‎ ‎adjacent to at least one vertex v for which f(v)=2‎. ‎An RDF f is called‎‎an outer independent Roman dominating function (OIRDF) if the set of‎‎vertices assigned a 0 under f is an independent set‎. ‎The weight of an‎‎OIRDF is the sum of its function values over ...

Lower bound on the paired domination number of a tree

Lower bound on the domination number of a tree

We prove that the domination number γ(T ) of a tree T on n ≥ 3 vertices and with n1 endvertices satisfies inequality γ(T ) ≥ n+2−n1 3 and we characterize the extremal graphs.