a function $f:v(g)rightarrow {-1,0,1}$ is a {em minusdominating function} if for every vertex $vin v(g)$, $sum_{uinn[v]}f(u)ge 1$. a minus dominating function $f$ of $g$ is calleda {em global minus dominating function} if $f$ is also a minusdominating function of the complement $overline{g}$ of $g$. the{em global minus domination number} $gamma_{g}^-(g)$ of $g$ isdefined as $gamma_{g}^-(g)=min{...

the broadcast domination number of the cartesian product of two cycles is completely determined.

The domination number of a graph G = (V,E) is the minimum size of a dominating set U ⊆ V , which satisfies that every vertex in V \ U is adjacent to at least one vertex in U . The notion of a problem kernel refers to a polynomial time algorithm that achieves some provable reduction of the input size. Given a graph G whose domination number is k, the objective is to design a polynomial time algo...

The reinforcement number of a graph is the smallest number of edges that have to be added to a graph to reduce the domination number. We introduce the k-reinforcement number of a graph as the smallest number of edges that have to be added to a graph to reduce the domination number by k. We present an O(kn) dynamic programming algorithm for computing the maximum number of vertices that can be do...

A sequence of vertices in a graph G is called a legal dominating sequence if every vertex in the sequence dominates at least one vertex not dominated by those vertices that precede it, and at the end all vertices of G are dominated. While the length of a shortest such sequence is the domination number of G, in this paper we investigate legal dominating sequences of maximum length, which we call...

Let [Formula: see text] be a graph. A set [Formula: see text] is a distance k-dominating set of G if for every vertex [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] for some vertex [Formula: see text], where k is a positive integer. The distance k-domination number [Formula: see text] of G is the minimum cardinality among all distance k-dominating sets of G. The first Zagreb index of G is defined as ...

In this paper, we evaluate the connected domination number of (Zn), in some case of n. We find out that the connected domination number of (Z p e1 1 ×p e2 2 ×···×p ek k ) is equal to k. Finally, we characterize the graphs in which γ ( (Zn)) = γc( (Zn)). AMS subject classification: 05C25, 05C69.

Roman domination is a historically inspired variety of general domination such that every vertex is labeled with labels from {0, 1, 2}. Roman domination number is the smallest of the sums of labels fulfilling condition that every vertex, labeled 0, has a neighbor, labeled 2. Using algebraic approach we give O(C) time algorithm for computing Roman domination number of special classes of polygrap...

For a graph G, let f : V (G) → P({1, 2, . . . , k}) be a function. If for each vertex v ∈ V (G) such that f(v) = ∅ we have ∪u∈N(v)f(u) = {1, 2, . . . , k}, then f is called a k-rainbow dominating function (or simply kRDF) of G. The weight, w(f), of a kRDF f is defined as w(f) = ∑ v∈V (G) |f(v)|. The minimum weight of a kRDF of G is called the k-rainbow domination number of G, and is denoted by ...

The recently introduced concept of k-power domination generalizes domination and power domination, the latter concept being used for monitoring an electric power system. The k-power domination problem is to determine a minimum size vertex subset S of a graph G such that after setting X = N [S], and iteratively adding to X vertices x that have a neighbour v in X such that at most k neighbours of...