ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
On the (2,2)-domination number of trees
Authors 1, 1, 1
Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
Abstract
Let γ(G) and denote the domination number and (2,2)-domination number of a graph G, respectively. In this paper, for any nontrivial tree T, we show that . Moreover, we characterize all the trees achieving the equalities.
Keywords
domination number, total domination number, (2,2)-domination number
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