Using hypergraph transversals it is proved that γt(Qn+1) = 2γ(Qn), where γt(G) and γ(G) denote the total domination number and the domination number of G, respectively, and Qn is the n-dimensional hypercube. More generally, it is shown that if G is a bipartite graph, then γt(G K2) = 2γ(G). Further, we show that the bipartiteness condition is essential by constructing, for any k > 1, a (non-bipa...

We study the complexity of query evaluation of SPARQL queries. We focus on the fundamental fragment of welldesigned SPARQL restricted to the AND, OPTIONAL and UNION operators. Our main result is a structural characterisation of the classes of well-designed queries that can be evaluated in polynomial time. In particular, we introduce a new notion of width called domination width, which relies on...

Let P be an optimization problem, and let A be an approximation algorithm for P . The domination ratio domr(A,n) is the maximum real q such that the solution x(I) obtained by A for any instance I of P of size n is not worse than at least a fraction q of the feasible solutions of I. We describe a deterministic, polynomial time algorithm with domination ratio 1−o(1) for the partition problem, and...

The domination multisubdivision number of a nonempty graph G was defined in [3] as the minimum positive integer k such that there exists an edge which must be subdivided k times to increase the domination number of G. Similarly we define the total domination multisubdivision number msdγt(G) of a graph G and we show that for any connected graph G of order at least two, msdγt(G) ≤ 3. We show that...

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...

Let G be a simple graph of order n. A dominating set of G is a set S of vertices of G so that every vertex of G is either in S or adjacent to a vertex in S. The domination polynomial of G is the polynomial D(G,x) = ∑n i=1 d(G, i)x , where d(G, i) is the number of dominating sets of G of size i. In this paper we show that cycles are determined by their domination polynomials. AMS Classification:...

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...

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, the total 2-tuple domination number, and the open packing number of the factors. Using these relationships one exact total domination number is obtained. An infinite family of graphs is constructed showing that the bounds are best possible. The dom...