the inflation $g_{i}$ of a graph $g$ with $n(g)$ vertices and $m(g)$ edges is obtained from $g$ by replacing every vertex of degree $d$ of $g$ by a clique, which is isomorph to the complete graph $k_{d}$, and each edge $(x_{i},x_{j})$ of $g$ is replaced by an edge $(u,v)$ in such a way that $uin x_{i}$, $vin x_{j}$, and two different edges of $g$ are replaced by non-adjacent edges of $g_{i}$. t...

In this paper we consider the effect of edge contraction on the domination number and total domination number of a graph. We define the (total) domination contraction number of a graph as the minimum number of edges that must be contracted in order to decrease the (total) domination number. We show both of this two numbers are at most three for any graph. In view of this result, we classify gra...

4 In this paper, we study the domination number, the global dom5 ination number, the cographic domination number, the global co6 graphic domination number and the independent domination number 7 of all the graph products which are non-complete extended p-sums 8 (NEPS) of two graphs. 9

The domination number γ(G), the independent domination number ι(G), the connected domination number γc(G), and the paired domination number γp(G) of a graph G (without isolated vertices, if necessary) are related by the simple inequalities γ(G) ≤ ι(G), γ(G) ≤ γc(G), and γ(G) ≤ γp(G). Very little is known about the graphs that satisfy one of these inequalities with equality. I.E. Zverovich and V...

We briefly review known results about the signed edge domination number of graphs. In the case of bipartite graphs, the signed edge domination number can be viewed in terms of its bi-adjacency matrix. This motivates the introduction of the signed domination number of a (0, 1)-matrix. We investigate the signed domination number for various classes of (0, 1)-matrices, in particular for regular an...

The paired bondage number (total restrained bondage number, independent bondage number, k-rainbow bondage number) of a graph G, is the minimum number of edges whose removal from G results in a graph with larger paired domination number (respectively, total restrained domination number, independent domination number, k-rainbow domination number). In this paper we show that the decision problems ...

MacGillivray and Seyffarth (J. Graph Theory 22 (1996), 213–229) proved that planar graphs of diameter three have domination number at most ten. Recently it was shown (J. Graph Theory 40 (2002), 1–25) that a planar graph of diameter three and of radius two has domination number at most six while every sufficiently large planar graph of diameter three has domination number at most seven. In this ...

‎a total dominating set of a graph $g$ is a set $d$ of vertices of $g$ such that every vertex of $g$ has a neighbor in $d$‎. ‎the total domination number of a graph $g$‎, ‎denoted by $gamma_t(g)$‎, ‎is~the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set of $g$‎. ‎chellali and haynes [total and paired-domination numbers of a tree, akce international ournal of graphs and combinatorics 1 (2004)‎, ‎6...