Remarks on restrained domination and total restrained domination in graphs

summary:The restrained domination number $\gamma ^r (G)$ and the total restrained domination number $\gamma ^r_t (G)$ of a graph $G$ were introduced recently by various authors as certain variants of the domination number $\gamma (G)$ of $(G)$. A well-known numerical invariant of a graph is the domatic number $d (G)$ which is in a certain way related (and may be called dual) to $\gamma (G)$. The paper tries to define analogous concepts also for the restrained domination and the total restrained domination and discusses the sense of such new definitions