For a given connected graph G = (V, E), a set $$D \subseteq V(G)$$ is a doubly connected dominating set if it is dominating and both 〈D〉 and 〈V (G)-D〉 are connected. The cardinality of the minimum doubly connected dominating set in G is the doubly connected domination number. We investigate several properties of doubly connected dominating sets and give some bounds on the doubly connected domination number.
It is known that the removal of an edge from a graph G cannot decrease a domination number γ(G) and can increase it by at most one. Thus we can write that γ(G) ≤ γ(G-e) ≤ γ(G)+1 when an arbitrary edge e is removed. Here we present similar inequalities for the weakly connected domination number $γ_w$ and the connected domination number $γ_c$, i.e., we show that $γ_w(G) ≤ γ_w(G-e) ≤ γ_w(G)+1$ and $γ_c(G) ≤ γ_c(G-e) ≤ γ_c(G) + 2$ if G and G-e are connected. Additionally we show that $γ_w(G) ≤ γ_w(G-Eₚ) ≤ γ_w(G) + p - 1$ and $γ_c(G) ≤ γ_c(G -Eₚ) ≤ γ_c(G) + 2p - 2$ if G and G - Eₚ are connected and Eₚ = E(Hₚ) where Hₚ of order p is a connected subgraph of G.
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