Orientable domination in product-like graphs

The orientable domination number, ${\rm DOM}(G)$, of a graph $G$ is the largest domination number over all orientations of $G$. In this paper, ${\rm DOM}$ is studied on different product graphs and related graph operations. The orientable domination number of arbitrary corona products is determined, while sharp lower and upper bounds are proved for Cartesian and lexicographic products. A result of Chartrand et al. from 1996 is extended by establishing the values of ${\rm DOM}(K_{n_1,n_2,n_3})$ for arbitrary positive integers $n_1,n_2$ and $n_3$. While considering the orientable domination number of lexicographic product graphs, we answer in the negative a question concerning domination and packing numbers in acyclic digraphs posed in [Domination in digraphs and their direct and Cartesian products, J. Graph Theory 99 (2022) 359-377]

Connectivity and other invariants of generalized products of graphs

Figueroa-Centeno et al. [4] introduced the following product of digraphs let D be a digraph and let G be a family of digraphs such that V (F) = V for every F¿G. Consider any function h:E(D)¿G. Then the product D¿hG is the digraph with vertex set V(D)×V and ((a,x),(b,y))¿E(D¿hG) if and only if (a,b)¿E(D) and (x,y)¿E(h(a,b)). In this paper, we deal with the undirected version of the ¿h-product, which is a generalization of the classical direct product of graphs and, motivated by the ¿h-product, we also recover a generalization of the classical lexicographic product of graphs, namely the °h-product, that was introduced by Sabidussi in 1961. We provide two characterizations for the connectivity of G¿hG that generalize the existing one for the direct product. For G°hG, we provide exact formulas for the connectivity and the edge-connectivity, under the assumption that V (F) = V , for all F¿G. We also introduce some miscellaneous results about other invariants in terms of the factors of both, the ¿h-product and the °h-product. Some of them are easily obtained from the corresponding product of two graphs, but many others generalize the existing ones for the direct and the lexicographic product, respectively. We end up the paper by presenting some structural properties. An interesting result in this direction is a characterization for the existence of a nontrivial decomposition of a given graph G in terms of ¿h-product.Postprint (author's final draft

Distances and Domination in Graphs

This book presents a compendium of the 10 articles published in the recent Special Issue “Distance and Domination in Graphs”. The works appearing herein deal with several topics on graph theory that relate to the metric and dominating properties of graphs. The topics of the gathered publications deal with some new open lines of investigations that cover not only graphs, but also digraphs. Different variations in dominating sets or resolving sets are appearing, and a review on some networks’ curvatures is also present

On (2-d)-kernels in the cartesian product of graphs

In this paper we study the problem of the existence of (2-d)-kernels in the cartesian product of graphs. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of (2-d)-kernels in the cartesian product and also we consider the number of (2-d)-kernels

On the Packing Partitioning Problem on Directed Graphs

This work is aimed to continue studying the packing sets of digraphs via the perspective of partitioning the vertex set of a digraph into packing sets (which can be interpreted as a type of vertex coloring of digraphs) and focused on finding the minimum cardinality among all packing partitions for a given digraph D, called the packing partition number of D. Some lower and upper bounds on this parameter are proven, and their exact values for directed trees are given in this paper. In the case of directed trees, the proof results in a polynomial-time algorithm for finding a packing partition of minimum cardinality. We also consider this parameter in digraph products. In particular, a complete solution to this case is presented when dealing with the rooted products

Injective coloring of product graphs

The problem of injective coloring in graphs can be revisited through two different approaches: coloring the two-step graphs and vertex partitioning of graphs into open packing sets, each of which is equivalent to the injective coloring problem itself. Taking these facts into account, we observe that the injective coloring lies between graph coloring and domination theory. We make use of these three points of view in this paper so as to investigate the injective coloring of some well-known graph products. We bound the injective chromatic number of direct and lexicographic product graphs from below and above. In particular, we completely determine this parameter for the direct product of two cycles. We also give a closed formula for the corona product of two graphs