Domination Game: Extremal Families for the 3/5-Conjecture for Forests

Autor: Henning Michael A., Löwenstein Christian
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, Vol 37, Iss 2, Pp 369-381 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2083-5892
DOI: 10.7151/dmgt.1931
Popis: In the domination game on a graph G, the players Dominator and Staller alternately select vertices of G. Each vertex chosen must strictly increase the number of vertices dominated. This process eventually produces a dominating set of G; Dominator aims to minimize the size of this set, while Staller aims to maximize it. The size of the dominating set produced under optimal play is the game domination number of G, denoted by γg(G). Kinnersley, West and Zamani [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 27 (2013) 2090-2107] posted their 3/5-Conjecture that γg(G) ≤ ⅗n for every isolate-free forest on n vertices. Brešar, Klavžar, Košmrlj and Rall [Discrete Appl. Math. 161 (2013) 1308-1316] presented a construction that yields an infinite family of trees that attain the conjectured 3/5-bound. In this paper, we provide a much larger, but simpler, construction of extremal trees. We conjecture that if G is an isolate-free forest on n vertices satisfying γg(G) = ⅗n, then every component of G belongs to our construction.
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