MacGillivray and Seyffarth (J. Graph Theory 22 (1996), 213–229) proved that planar graphs of diameter two have domination number at most three and planar graphs of diameter three have domination number at most ten. They also give examples of planar graphs of diameter four having arbitrarily large domination numbers. In this paper we improve on their results. We prove that there is in fact a uni...

Let K n denote the Cartesian product Kn Kn Kn, where Kn is the complete graph on n vertices. We show that the domination number of K n is ⌈

The domination number of a graph G = (V,E) is the minimum cardinality of any subset S ⊂ V such that every vertex in V is in S or adjacent to an element of S. Finding the domination numbers of m by n grids was an open problem for nearly 30 years and was finally solved in 2011 by Goncalves, Pinlou, Rao, and Thomassé. Many variants of domination number on graphs, such as double domination number a...

A graph G with no isolated vertex is total domination vertex critical if for any vertex v of G that is not adjacent to a vertex of degree one, the total domination number of G− v is less than the total domination number of G. We call these graphs total domination critical or just γt-critical. If such a graph G has total domination number k, we call it k-γt-critical. We study an open problem of ...

We introduce the domination search game which can be seen as a natural modiica-tion of the well-known node search game. Various results concerning the domination search number of a graph are presented. In particular, we establish a very interesting connection between domination graph searching and a relatively new graph parameter called dominating target number.

In this note, we prove several lower bounds on the domination number of simple connected graphs. Among these are the following: the domination number is at least two-thirds of the radius of the graph, three times the domination number is at least two more than the number of cut-vertices in the graph, and the domination number of a tree is at least as large as the minimum order of a maximal matc...

In this paper, we conclude the calculation of the domination number of all n×m grid graphs. Indeed, we prove Chang’s conjecture saying that for every 16 ≤ n ≤ m, γ(Gn,m) = ⌊ (n+2)(m+2) 5 ⌋ −4.

An exact lower bound for the domination number and the total domination number of the direct product of finitely many complete graphs is given: (×i=1Kni) ≥ t + 1, t ≥ 3. Sharpness is established in the case when the factors are large enough in comparison to the number of factors. The main result gives a lower bound for the domination (and the total domination) number of the direct product of tw...