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 ...

In this paper, we propose a new network reliability measure for some particular kind of service networks, which we refer to as domination reliability. We relate this new reliability measure to the domination polynomial of a graph and the coverage probability of a hypergraph. We derive explicit and recursive formulæ for domination reliability and its associated domination reliability polynomial,...

‎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...

This paper consists of two loosely related notes on the domination number of graphs. In the first part, we provide a new upper bound for the domination number of d-regular graphs. Our bound is the best known for d ≥ 6. In the second part, we compute the exact domination number and total domination number of certain Kneser graphs, and we provide some bounds on the domination number of other Knes...

A dominating set S of a graph G is called efficient if |N [v]∩S| = 1 for every vertex v ∈ V (G). That is, a dominating set S is efficient if and only if every vertex is dominated exactly once. In this paper, we investigate efficient multiple domination. There are several types of multiple domination defined in the literature: k-tuple domination, {k}-domination, and k-domination. We investigate ...

A cactus graph is a connected graph in which any two cycles have at most one vertex in common. Let γ(G) and γc(G) be the domination number and connected domination number of a graph G, respectively. We can see that γ(G) ≤ γc(G) for any graph G. S. Arumugam and J. Paulraj Joseph [1] have characterized trees, unicyclic graphs and cubic graphs with equal domination and connected domination numbers...

for a graph $g$ let $gamma (g)$ be its domination number. we define a graph g to be (i) a hypo-efficient domination graph (or a hypo-$mathcal{ed}$ graph) if $g$ has no efficient dominating set (eds) but every graph formed by removing a single vertex from $g$ has at least one eds, and (ii) a hypo-unique domination graph (a hypo-$mathcal{ud}$ graph) if $g$ has at least two minimum dominating sets...

Upper and lower bounds on the total domination number of the direct product of graphs are given. The bounds involve the {2}-total domination number and the total 2-tuple domination number of the factors. Using these relationships some exact total domination numbers are obtained. An infinite family of graphs is constructed showing that the bounds are best possible. The domination number of direc...

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