Degree Name

MS (Master of Science)

Program

Mathematical Sciences

Date of Award

5-2017

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Teresa Haynes

Committee Members

Robert B. Gardner, Robert A. Beeler

Abstract

The complementary prism GG of a graph G is formed from the disjoint union of G and its complement G by adding the edges of a perfect match- ing between the corresponding vertices of G and G. A Roman dominating function on a graph G = (V,E) is a labeling f : V(G) → {0,1,2} such that every vertex with label 0 is adjacent to a vertex with label 2. The Roman domination number γR(G) of G is the minimum f(V ) = Σv∈V f(v) over all such functions of G. We study the Roman domination number of complementary prisms. Our main results show that γR(GG) takes on a limited number of values in terms of the domination number of GG and the Roman domination numbers of G and G.

Document Type

Thesis - unrestricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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