A set of vertices of a graph G is a total dominating set if each vertex of G is adjacent to a vertex in the set. The total domination number of a graph Υt (G) is the minimum size of a total dominating set. We provide a short proof of the result that Υt (G) ≤ 2/3n for connected graphs with n ≥ 3 and a short characterization of the extremal graphs.

We determine upper bounds for $\gamma \left(Q{n}^t\right)$ and $i\left(Q{ₙ}^t\right)$, the domination and independent domination numbers, respectively, of the graph $Q{ₙ}^t$ obtained from the moves of queens on the n×n chessboard drawn on the torus.

For a graph property $𝒫$ and a graph $G$, we define the domination subdivision number with respect to the property $𝒫$ to be the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (where each edge in $G$ can be subdivided at most once) in order to change the domination number with respect to the property $𝒫$. In this paper we obtain upper bounds in terms of maximum degree and orientable/non-orientable genus for the domination subdivision number with respect to an induced-hereditary property, total domination...

Let G be a graph with vertex set V (G), and let f : V (G) → {−1, 1} be a two-valued function. If k ≥ 1 is an integer and Σx∈N(v) f(x) ≥ k for each v ∈ V (G), where N(v) is the neighborhood of v, then f is a signed total k-dominating function on G. A set {f1, f2, . . . , fd} of distinct signed total k-dominating functions on G with the property that Σdi=1 fi(x) ≤ k for each x ∈ V (G), is called a signed total (k, k)-dominating family (of functions) on G. The maximum number of functions in a signed...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph. A set S ⊆ V is a dominating set if Uv∈S N[v] = V , where N[v] is the closed neighborhood of v. Let L ⊆ V be a dominating set, and let v be a designated vertex in V (an intruder vertex). Each vertex in L ∩ N[v] can report that v is the location of the intruder, but (at most) one x ∈ L ∩ N[v] can report any w ∈ N[x] as the intruder location or x can indicate that there is no intruder in N[x]. A dominating set L is called a liar’s dominating set if every v ∈ V (G) can be correctly...

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is called a paired-dominating set if it dominates $V$ and $\langle S\rangle$ contains at least one perfect matching. We characterize the set of vertices of a tree that are contained in all minimum paired-dominating sets of the tree.

Let G be a graph with no isolated vertex. In this paper, we study a parameter that is squeezed between arguably the two most important domination parameters; namely, the domination number, γ(G), and the total domination number, γt(G). A set S of vertices in a graph G is a semitotal dominating set of G if it is a dominating set of G and every vertex in S is within distance 2 of another vertex of S. The semitotal domination number, γt2(G), is the minimum cardinality of a semitotal dominating set of...

In this paper we extend the notion of weak degree domination in graphs to hypergraphs and find relationships among the domination number, the weak edge-degree domination number, the independent domination number and the independence number of a given hypergraph.

Let G = (V,E) be a graph and f be a function f:V → 0,1,2. A vertex u with f(u) = 0 is said to be undefended with respect to f, if it is not adjacent to a vertex with positive weight. The function f is a weak Roman dominating function (WRDF) if each vertex u with f(u) = 0 is adjacent to a vertex v with f(v) > 0 such that the function f’: V → 0,1,2 defined by f’(u) = 1, f’(v) = f(v)-1 and f’(w) = f(w) if w ∈ V-u,v, has no undefended vertex. The weight of f is $w\left(f\right)={\sum }_{v\in V}f\left(v\right)$. The weak Roman domination number,...

A dominating set $D\subseteq V\left(G\right)$ is a weakly connected dominating set in $G$ if the subgraph $G{\left[D\right]}_w=(N_G\left[D\right],E_w)$ weakly induced by $D$ is connected, where $E_w$ is the set of all edges having at least one vertex in $D$. Weakly connected domination number${\gamma }_w\left(G\right)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality among all weakly connected dominating sets in $G$. A graph $G$ is said to be weakly connected domination stable or just ${\gamma }_w$-stable if ${\gamma }_w\left(G\right)={\gamma }_w(G+e)$ for every edge $e$ belonging to the complement $\overline{G}$ of $G.$ We provide a constructive characterization of weakly connected domination...

A set D of vertices in a graph G = (V,E) is a weakly connected dominating set of G if D is dominating in G and the subgraph weakly induced by D is connected. The weakly connected domination number of G is the minimum cardinality of a weakly connected dominating set of G. The weakly connected domination subdivision number of a connected graph G is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (where each egde can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the weakly connected domination...

We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if its arcs are coloured with m colours. If D is an m-coloured digraph and a ∈ A(D), colour(a) will denote the colour has been used on a. A path (or a cycle) is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are coloured alike. A γ-cycle in D is a sequence of vertices, say γ = (u0, u1, . . . , un), such that ui ≠ uj if i ≠ j and for every i ∈ 0, 1, . . . , n there is a uiui+1-monochromatic path in D and there is no ui+1ui-monochromatic path in D (the indices...

A set S ⊆ V is a dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) if every vertex in V -S is adjacent to at least one vertex in S. The domination number γ(G) of G equals the minimum cardinality of a dominating set S in G; we say that such a set S is a γ-set. In this paper we consider the family of all γ-sets in a graph G and we define the γ-graph G(γ) = (V(γ), E(γ)) of G to be the graph whose vertices V(γ) correspond 1-to-1 with the γ-sets of G, and two γ-sets, say D₁ and D₂, are adjacent in E(γ) if there exists...