Power domination in maximal planar graphs

Autor: Paul Dorbec, Antonio González, Claire Pennarun
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, Vol vol. 21 no. 4, Iss Graph Theory (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1365-8050
DOI: 10.23638/DMTCS-21-4-18
Popis: Power domination in graphs emerged from the problem of monitoring an electrical system by placing as few measurement devices in the system as possible. It corresponds to a variant of domination that includes the possibility of propagation. For measurement devices placed on a set S of vertices of a graph G, the set of monitored vertices is initially the set S together with all its neighbors. Then iteratively, whenever some monitored vertex v has a single neighbor u not yet monitored, u gets monitored. A set S is said to be a power dominating set of the graph G if all vertices of G eventually are monitored. The power domination number of a graph is the minimum size of a power dominating set. In this paper, we prove that any maximal planar graph of order n ≥ 6 admits a power dominating set of size at most (n−2)/4 .
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