An edge dominating set of a graph is a set D of edges such that every edge not in D is adjacent to at least one edge in D. In this paper we present a linear time algorithm for finding a minimum edge dominating set of a block graph.
Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30050 Taiwan
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