This paper provides lower orientable k-step domination number and upper orientable k-step domination number of complete r-partite graph for 1 ≤ k ≤ 2. It also proves that the intermediate value theorem holds for the complete r-partite graphs.

The k-domination number γk(G) of a simple, undirected graph G is the order of a smallest subset D of the vertices of G such that each vertex of G is either in D or adjacent to at least k vertices in D. In 2010, the conjecture-generating computer program, Graffiti.pc, was queried for upperbounds on the 2-domination number. In this paper we prove new upper bounds on the 2-domination number of a g...

For any integer  ‎, ‎a minus  k-dominating function is a‎function  f‎ : ‎V (G)  {-1,0‎, ‎1} satisfying w) for every  vertex v, ‎where N(v) ={u V(G) | uv  E(G)}  and N[v] =N(v)cup {v}. ‎The minimum of ‎the values of  v)‎, ‎taken over all minus‎k-dominating functions f,‎ is called the minus k-domination‎number and is denoted by $gamma_k^-(G)$ ‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we ‎introduce the study of minu...

A subset S of the vertices of a graph G is an outer-connected dominating set, if S is a dominating set of G and G − S is connected. The outer-connected domination number of G, denoted by γ̃c(G), is the minimum cardinality of an OCDS of G. In this paper we generalize the outer-connected domination in graphs. Many of the known results and bounds of outer-connected domination number are immediate c...

In this paper, we study a generalization of the paired domination number. Let G= (V ,E) be a graph without an isolated vertex. A set D ⊆ V (G) is a k-distance paired dominating set of G if D is a k-distance dominating set of G and the induced subgraph 〈D〉 has a perfect matching. The k-distance paired domination number p(G) is the cardinality of a smallest k-distance paired dominating set of G. ...

A k-tuple coloring of a graph G assigns a set of k colors to each vertex of G such that if two vertices are adjacent, the corresponding sets of colors are disjoint. The k-tuple chromatic number of G, χk(G), is the smallest t so that there is a k-tuple coloring of G using t colors. It is well known that χ(G2H) = max{χ(G), χ(H)}. In this paper, we show that there exist graphs G and H such that χk...

A k-dominating set is a set D k V such that every vertex i 2 V nD k has at least k i neighbours in D k. The k-domination number k (G) of G is the cardinality of a smallest k-dominating set of G. For k 1 = ::: = kn = 1, k-domination corresponds to the usual concept of domination. Our approach yields an improvement of an upper bound for the domination number found then the notion of k-dominating ...

Let G be a connected graph. Let f be a proper k -coloring of G and Π = (R_1, R_2, . . . , R_k) bean ordered partition of V (G) into color classes. For any vertex v of G, define the color code c_Π(v) of v with respect to Π to be a k -tuple (d(v, R_1), d(v, R_2), . . . , d(v, R_k)), where d(v, R_i) is the min{d(v, x)|x ∈ R_i}. If distinct vertices have distinct color codes, then we call f a locat...

A k-dominating set is a set D k V such that every vertex i 2 V nD k has at least k i neighbours in D k. The k-domination number k (G) of G is the cardinality of a smallest k-dominating set of G. For k 1 = ::: = kn = 1, k-domination corresponds to the usual concept of domination. Our approach yields an improvement of an upper bound for the domination number found then the notion of k-dominating ...