Global Defensive Alliances in Graphs
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-8-2003
Description
A defensive alliance in a graph G = (V,E) is a set of vertices S ⊆ V satisfying the condition that for every vertex v ∈ S, the number of neighbors v has in S plus one (counting v) is at least as large as the number of neighbors it has in V - S. Because of such an alliance, the vertices in S, agreeing to mutually support each other, have the strength of numbers to be able to defend themselves from the vertices in V - S. A defensive alliance S is called global if it e ects every vertex in V - S, that is, every vertex in V - S is adjacent to at least one member of the alliance S. Note that a global defensive alliance is a dominating set. We study global defensive alliances in graphs.
Citation Information
Haynes, Teresa W.; Hedetniemi, Stephen T.; and Henning, Michael A.. 2003. Global Defensive Alliances in Graphs. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. Vol.10(1 R). https://doi.org/10.37236/1740 ISSN: 1077-8926