ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Efficient (j,k)-domination

Authors 1, 2

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA

Abstract

A dominating set S of a graph G is called efficient if |N[v]∩ S| = 1 for every vertex v ∈ V(G). That is, a dominating set S is efficient if and only if every vertex is dominated exactly once. In this paper, we investigate efficient multiple domination. There are several types of multiple domination defined in the literature: k-tuple domination, {k}-domination, and k-domination. We investigate efficient versions of the first two as well as a new type of multiple domination.

Keywords

efficient domination, multiple domination

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Pages:
409-423
Main language of publication
English
Received
2006-04-01
Accepted
2006-05-16
Published
2007
Exact and natural sciences