Domination is a rapidly developing area of research in graph theory, and its various applications to ad hoc networks, distributed computing, social networks and web graphs partly explain the increased interest. This thesis focuses on domination theory, and the main aim of the study is to apply a probabilistic approach to obtain new upper bounds for various domination parameters. Chapters 2 and ...

We investigate the apparent difficulty of finding domatic partitions in graphs using tools from computability theory. We consider nicely presented (i.e., computable) infinite graphs and show that even if the domatic number is known, there might not be any algorithm for producing a domatic partition of optimal size. However, we prove that smaller domatic partitions can be constructed if we restr...

For a positive integer k, a total {k}-dominating function of a digraph D is a function f from the vertex set V (D) to the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , k} such that for any vertex v ∈ V (D), the condition ∑ u∈N(v) f(u) ≥ k is fulfilled, where N(v) consists of all vertices of D from which arcs go into v. A set {f1, f2, . . . , fd} of total {k}-dominating functions of D with the property that ∑ d i=1 fi(...

Let G be a graph. A total dominating set of G is a set S of vertices of G such that every vertex is adjacent to at least one vertex in S. The total domatic number of a graph is the maximum number of total dominating sets which partition the vertex set of G. In this paper we would like to characterize the cubic graphs with total domatic number at least two.

For a positive integer k, a total {k}-dominating function of a graph G without isolated vertices is a function f from the vertex set V (G) to the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , k} such that for any vertex v ∈ V (G), the condition ∑ u∈N(v) f(u) ≥ k is fulfilled, where N(v) is the open neighborhood of v. The weight of a total {k}-dominating function f is the value ω(f) = ∑ v∈V f(v). The total {k}-dominati...