Dominating sequences in grid-like and toroidal graphs

A longest sequence $S$ of distinct vertices of a graph $G$ such that each vertex of $S$ dominates some vertex that is not dominated by its preceding vertices, is called a Grundy dominating sequence; the length of $S$ is the Grundy domination number of $G$. In this paper we study the Grundy domination number in the four standard graph products: the Cartesian, the lexicographic, the direct, and the strong product. For each of the products we present a lower bound for the Grundy domination number which turns out to be exact for the lexicographic product and is conjectured to be exact for the strong product. In most of the cases exact Grundy domination numbers are determined for products of paths and/or cycles.Comment: 17 pages 3 figure

Perfect domination in regular grid graphs

We show there is an uncountable number of parallel total perfect codes in the integer lattice graph ${\Lambda}$ of $\R^2$. In contrast, there is just one 1-perfect code in ${\Lambda}$ and one total perfect code in ${\Lambda}$ restricting to total perfect codes of rectangular grid graphs (yielding an asymmetric, Penrose, tiling of the plane). We characterize all cycle products $C_m\times C_n$ with parallel total perfect codes, and the $d$-perfect and total perfect code partitions of ${\Lambda}$ and $C_m\times C_n$, the former having as quotient graph the undirected Cayley graphs of $\Z_{2d^2+2d+1}$ with generator set $\{1,2d^2\}$. For $r>1$, generalization for 1-perfect codes is provided in the integer lattice of $\R^r$ and in the products of $r$ cycles, with partition quotient graph $K_{2r+1}$ taken as the undirected Cayley graph of $\Z_{2r+1}$ with generator set $\{1,...,r\}$.Comment: 16 pages; 11 figures; accepted for publication in Austral. J. Combi

Half domination arrangements in regular and semi-regular tessellation type graphs

We study the problem of half-domination sets of vertices in vertex transitive infinite graphs generated by regular or semi-regular tessellations of the plane. In some cases, the results obtained are sharp and in the rest, we show upper bounds for the average densities of vertices in half-domination sets.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figure

Quasiperfect domination in triangular lattices

A vertex subset $S$ of a graph $G$ is a perfect (resp. quasiperfect) dominating set in $G$ if each vertex $v$ of $G\setminus S$ is adjacent to only one vertex ($d_v\in\{1,2\}$ vertices) of $S$. Perfect and quasiperfect dominating sets in the regular tessellation graph of Schl\"afli symbol $\{3,6\}$ and in its toroidal quotients are investigated, yielding the classification of their perfect dominating sets and most of their quasiperfect dominating sets $S$ with induced components of the form $K_{\nu}$, where $\nu\in\{1,2,3\}$ depends only on $S$.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures, 5 array

Grundy dominating sequences and zero forcing sets

In a graph $G$ a sequence $v_1,v_2,\dots,v_m$ of vertices is Grundy dominating if for all $2\le i \le m$ we have $N[v_i]\not\subseteq \cup_{j=1}^{i-1}N[v_j]$ and is Grundy total dominating if for all $2\le i \le m$ we have $N(v_i)\not\subseteq \cup_{j=1}^{i-1}N(v_j)$. The length of the longest Grundy (total) dominating sequence has been studied by several authors. In this paper we introduce two similar concepts when the requirement on the neighborhoods is changed to $N(v_i)\not\subseteq \cup_{j=1}^{i-1}N[v_j]$ or $N[v_i]\not\subseteq \cup_{j=1}^{i-1}N(v_j)$. In the former case we establish a strong connection to the zero forcing number of a graph, while we determine the complexity of the decision problem in the latter case. We also study the relationships among the four concepts, and discuss their computational complexities