On the total restrained domination edge critical graphs

Let G = (V, E) be a graph. A set D ⊆ V is a total restrained dominating set of G if every vertex in V has a neighbor in D and every vertex in V −D has a neighbor in V −D. The cardinality of a minimum total restrained dominating set in G is the total restrained domination number of G. In this paper, we define the concept of total restrained domination edge critical graphs, find a lower bound for the total restrained domination number of graphs, and constructively characterize trees having their total restrained domination numbers achieving the lower bound.