A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a graph G = (V,E) is a function f : V → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which f(u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v for which f(v) = 2. The weight of an RDF f is the value f(V (G)) = ∑ u∈V (G) f(u). A function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} with the ordered partition (V0, V1, V2) of V (G), where Vi = {v ∈ V (G) | f(v) = i} for i = 0...

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For any integer  ‎, ‎a minus  k-dominating function is a‎function  f‎ : ‎V (G)  {-1,0‎, ‎1} satisfying w) for every  vertex v, ‎where N(v) ={u V(G) | uv  E(G)}  and N[v] =N(v)cup {v}. ‎The minimum of ‎the values of  v)‎, ‎taken over all minus‎k-dominating functions f,‎ is called the minus k-domination‎number and is denoted by $gamma_k^-(G)$ ‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we ‎introduce the study of minu...

A graph is said to be well-edge-dominated if all its minimal edge dominating sets are minimum. It known that every G also equimatchable, meaning maximal matching in maximum. In this paper, we show a connected, triangle-free, nonbipartite, graph, then one of three graphs. We characterize the split graphs and Cartesian products. particular, connected product $$G\Box H$$ well-edge-dominated, where...

We analyze the simple greedy algorithm that iteratively removes the endpoints of a maximum-degree edge in a graph, where the degree of an edge is the sum of the degrees of its endpoints. This algorithm provides a 2-approximation to the minimum edge dominating set and minimum maximal matching problems. We refine its analysis and give an expression of the approximation ratio that is strictly less...

Let k be a positive integer and G be a k-connected graph. In 2009, Chartrand, Johns, McKeon, and Zhang introduced the rainbow k-connection number rck(G) of G. An edge-coloured path is rainbow if its edges have distinct colours. Then, rck(G) is the minimum number of colours required to colour the edges of G so that any two vertices of G are connected by k internally vertex-disjoint rainbow paths...

The focus of this paper is two fold. Firstly, we present a logical approach to graph modification problems such as minimum node deletion, edge deletion, edge augmentation problems by expressing them as an expression in first order (FO) logic. As a consequence, it follows that these problems have constant factor polynomial-time approximation algorithms. In particular, node deletion/edge deletion...