Domination and Total Domination in Complementary Prisms

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2009

Description

Let G be a graph and Ḡ be the complement of G. The complementary prism GḠ of G is the graph formed from the disjoint union of G and Ḡ by adding the edges of a perfect matching between the corresponding vertices of G and Ḡ. For example, if G is a 5-cycle, then GḠ is the Petersen graph. In this paper we consider domination and total domination numbers of complementary prisms. For any graph G, max {γ(G), γ(Ḡ)} ≤ γ (Ḡ)and max {γt(G), γt(Ḡ)} ≤ γt (Gγ), where γ(G) and γt(G) denote the domination and total domination numbers of G, respectively. Among other results, we characterize the graphs G attaining these lower bounds.

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