We show that the number of minimal dominating sets in a graph on n vertices is at most 1.7697, thus improving on the trivial O(2n/√n) bound. Our result makes use of the measure and conquer technique from exact algorithms, and can be easily turned into an O(1.7697) listing algorithm. Based on this result, we derive an O(2.8805n) algorithm for the domatic number problem, and an O(1.5780) algorith...

Roman dominating function} on a digraph $D$ with vertex set $V(D)$ is a labeling$fcolon V(D)to {0, 1, 2}$such that every vertex with label $0$ has an in-neighbor with label $2$. A set ${f_1,f_2,ldots,f_d}$ ofRoman dominating functions on $D$ with the property that $sum_{i=1}^d f_i(v)le 2$ for each $vin V(D)$,is called a {em Roman dominating family} (of functions) on $D$....

Let δ(G), ∆(G) and γ(G) be the minimum degree, maximum degree and domination number of a graph G = (V (G), E(G)), respectively. A partition of V (G), all of whose classes are dominating sets in G, is called a domatic partition of G. The maximum number of classes of a domatic partition of G is called the domatic number of G, denoted d(G). It is well known that d(G) ≤ δ(G)+1, d(G)γ(G) ≤ |V (G)| [...

In this paper, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an efficient 2-dominating set in a class of circulant graphs has been obtained and for those circulant graphs, an upper bound for the 2domination number is also obtained. For the circulant graphs Cir(n,A), where A = {1, 2, . . . , x, n − 1, n − 2, . . . , n − x} and x ≤ bn−1 2 c, the perfect 2-tuple total domination number...

For a graph G = (V,E), a set D ⊆ V (G) is a total restrained dominating set if it is a dominating set and both 〈D〉 and 〈V (G)−D〉 do not have isolated vertices. The cardinality of a minimum total restrained dominating set in G is the total restrained domination number. A set D ⊆ V (G) is a restrained dominating set if it is a dominating set and 〈V (G) − D〉 does not contain an isolated vertex. Th...

For a connected graph G = (V,E) of order at least two, a total restrained monophonic set S of a graph G is a restrained monophonic set S such that the subgraph induced by S has no isolated vertices. The minimum cardinality of a total restrained monophonic set of G is the total restrained monophonic number of G and is denoted by mtr(G). A total restrained monophonic set of cardinality mtr(G) is ...

In this paper, we present new upper bounds for the global domination and Roman domination numbers and also prove that these results are asymptotically best possible. Moreover, we give upper bounds for the restrained domination and total restrained domination numbers for large classes of graphs, and show that, for almost all graphs, the restrained domination number is equal to the domination num...

For a given connected graphG= (V ,E), a setDtr ⊆ V (G) is a total restrained dominating set if it is dominating and both 〈Dtr〉 and 〈V (G)−Dtr〉 do not contain isolate vertices. The cardinality of the minimum total restrained dominating set in G is the total restrained domination number and is denoted by tr(G). In this paper we characterize the trees with equal total and total restrained dominati...