If $G$ is a simple graph of size $n$ without isolated vertices and $\overline{G}$ is its complement, we show that the domination numbers of $G$ and $\overline{G}$ satisfy $$\gamma \left(G\right)+\gamma \left(\overline{G}\right)\le \left\}\begin{array}{c}n-\delta +2\text{if}\gamma \left(G\right)>3,\delta +3\text{if}\gamma \left(\overline{G}\right)>3,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\delta$ is the minimum degree of vertices in $G$.

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V\left(G\right)$, and let $k\ge 1$ be an integer. A subset $D\subseteq V\left(G\right)$ is called a if every vertex $v\in V\left(G\right)-D$ has at least $k$ neighbors in $D$. The $k$-domination number ${\gamma }_k\left(G\right)$ of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a $k$-dominating set in $G$. If $G$ is a graph with minimum degree $\delta \left(G\right)\ge k+1$, then we prove that $${\gamma }_{k+1}\left(G\right)\le \frac{\left|V\left(G\right)\right|+{\gamma }_k\left(G\right)}{2}.$$ In addition, we present a characterization of a special class of graphs attaining equality in this inequality.

Let $f$ be an integer-valued function defined on the vertex set $V\left(G\right)$ of a graph $G$. A subset $D$ of $V\left(G\right)$ is an $f$-dominating set if each vertex $x$ outside $D$ is adjacent to at least $f\left(x\right)$ vertices in $D$. The minimum number of vertices in an $f$-dominating set is defined to be the $f$-domination number, denoted by ${\gamma }_f\left(G\right)$. In a similar way one can define the connected and total $f$-domination numbers ${\gamma }_{c,f}\left(G\right)$ and ${\gamma }_{t,f}\left(G\right)$. If $f\left(x\right)=1$ for all vertices $x$, then these are the ordinary domination number, connected domination number and total...

P. Kristiansen, S. M. Hedetniemi, and S. T. Hedetniemi, in Alliances in graphs, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 48 (2004), 157–177, and T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, in Global defensive alliances in graphs, Electron. J. Combin. 10 (2003), introduced the defensive alliance number $a\left(G\right)$, strong defensive alliance number $\widehat{a}\left(G\right)$, and global defensive alliance number ${\gamma }_a\left(G\right)$. In this paper, we consider relationships between these parameters and the domination number $\gamma \left(G\right)$. For any positive...