Partitioning a graph into alliance free sets

نویسندگان

  • Khurram Shafique
  • Ronald D. Dutton
چکیده

A strong defensive alliance in a graph G = (V, E) is a set of vertices A ⊆ V , for which every vertex v ∈ A has at least as many neighbors in A as in V − A. We call a partition A, B of vertices to be an alliance-free partition, if neither A nor B contains a strong defensive alliance as a subset. We prove that a connected graph G has an alliance-free partition exactly when G has a block that is other than an odd clique or an odd cycle.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Mathematics

دوره 309  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009