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Three-arc graphs: characterization and domination
An arc of a graph is an oriented edge and a 3-arc is a 4-tuple of
vertices such that both and are paths of length two. The
3-arc graph of a graph is defined to have vertices the arcs of such
that two arcs are adjacent if and only if is a 3-arc of
. In this paper we give a characterization of 3-arc graphs and obtain sharp
upper bounds on the domination number of the 3-arc graph of a graph in
terms that of
Disjunctive Total Domination in Graphs
Let be a graph with no isolated vertex. In this paper, we study a
parameter that is a relaxation of arguably the most important domination
parameter, namely the total domination number, . A set of
vertices in is a disjunctive total dominating set of if every vertex is
adjacent to a vertex of or has at least two vertices in at distance2
from it. The disjunctive total domination number, , is the
minimum cardinality of such a set. We observe that . We prove that if is a connected graph of order, then
and we characterize the extremal graphs. It is
known that if is a connected claw-free graph of order, then and this upper bound is tight for arbitrarily large. We show this
upper bound can be improved significantly for the disjunctive total domination
number. We show that if is a connected claw-free graph of order,
then and we characterize the graphs achieving equality
in this bound.Comment: 23 page
Total domination versus paired domination
A dominating set of a graph G is a vertex subset that any vertex of G either belongs to or is adjacent to. A total dominating set is a dominating set whose induced subgraph does not contain isolated vertices. The minimal size of a total dominating set, the total domination number, is denoted by gamma_t . The maximal size of an inclusionwise minimal total dominating set, the upper total domination number, is denoted by Gamma_t . A paired dominating set is a dominating set whose induced subgraph has a perfect matching. The minimal size of a paired dominating set, the paired domination number, is denoted by gamma_p . The maximal size of an inclusionwise minimal paired dominating set, the upper paired domination number, is denoted by Gamma_p . In this paper we prove several results on the ratio of these four parameters: For each r ge 2 we prove the sharp bound gamma_p/gamma_t le 2 - 2/r for K_{1,r} -free graphs. As a consequence, we obtain the sharp bound gamma_p/gamma_t le 2 - 2/(Delta+1) , where Delta is the maximum degree. We also show for each r ge 2 that {C_5,T_r} -free graphs fulfill the sharp bound gamma_p/gamma_t le 2 - 2/r , where T_r is obtained from K_{1,r} by subdividing each edge exactly once. We show that all of these bounds also hold for the ratio Gamma_p / Gamma_t . Further, we prove that a graph hereditarily has an induced paired dominating set iff gamma_p le Gamma_t holds for any induced subgraph. We also give a finite forbidden subgraph characterization for this condition. We exactly determine the maximal value of the ratio gamma_p / Gamma_t taken over the induced subgraphs of a graph. As a consequence, we prove for each r ge 3 the sharp bound gamma_p/Gamma_t le 2 - 2/r for graphs that do not contain the corona of K_{1,r} as subgraph. In particular, we obtain the sharp bound gamma_p/Gamma_t le 2 - 2/Delta
Total domination versus paired domination
A dominating set of a graph G is a vertex subset that any vertex of G either belongs to or is adjacent to. A total dominating set is a dominating set whose induced subgraph does not contain isolated vertices. The minimal size of a total dominating set, the total domination number, is denoted by gamma_t . The maximal size of an inclusionwise minimal total dominating set, the upper total domination number, is denoted by Gamma_t . A paired dominating set is a dominating set whose induced subgraph has a perfect matching. The minimal size of a paired dominating set, the paired domination number, is denoted by gamma_p . The maximal size of an inclusionwise minimal paired dominating set, the upper paired domination number, is denoted by Gamma_p . In this paper we prove several results on the ratio of these four parameters: For each r ge 2 we prove the sharp bound gamma_p/gamma_t le 2 - 2/r for K_{1,r} -free graphs. As a consequence, we obtain the sharp bound gamma_p/gamma_t le 2 - 2/(Delta+1) , where Delta is the maximum degree. We also show for each r ge 2 that {C_5,T_r} -free graphs fulfill the sharp bound gamma_p/gamma_t le 2 - 2/r , where T_r is obtained from K_{1,r} by subdividing each edge exactly once. We show that all of these bounds also hold for the ratio Gamma_p / Gamma_t . Further, we prove that a graph hereditarily has an induced paired dominating set iff gamma_p le Gamma_t holds for any induced subgraph. We also give a finite forbidden subgraph characterization for this condition. We exactly determine the maximal value of the ratio gamma_p / Gamma_t taken over the induced subgraphs of a graph. As a consequence, we prove for each r ge 3 the sharp bound gamma_p/Gamma_t le 2 - 2/r for graphs that do not contain the corona of K_{1,r} as subgraph. In particular, we obtain the sharp bound gamma_p/Gamma_t le 2 - 2/Delta
Upper paired domination versus upper domination
A paired dominating set is a dominating set with the additional property
that has a perfect matching. While the maximum cardainality of a minimal
dominating set in a graph is called the upper domination number of ,
denoted by , the maximum cardinality of a minimal paired dominating
set in is called the upper paired domination number of , denoted by
. By Henning and Pradhan (2019), we know that
for any graph without isolated vertices. We
focus on the graphs satisfying the equality . We
give characterizations for two special graph classes: bipartite and unicyclic
graphs with by using the results of Ulatowski
(2015). Besides, we study the graphs with and a
restricted girth. In this context, we provide two characterizations: one for
graphs with and girth at least 6 and the other for
-free cactus graphs with . We also pose the
characterization of the general case of -free graphs with as an open question
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