In a graph G, a vertex dominates itself and its neighbors. A subset S ⊆ V(G) is a double dominating set of G if S dominates every vertex of G at least twice. The minimum cardinality of a double dominating set of G is the double domination number $γ_{×2}(G)$. A function f(p) is defined, and it is shown that $γ_{×2}(G) = min f(p)$, where the minimum is taken over the n-dimensional cube $Cⁿ = {p = (p₁,...,pₙ) | p_i ∈ IR, 0 ≤ p_i ≤ 1,i = 1,...,n}$. Using this result, it is then shown that if G has order n with minimum degree δ and average degree d, then $γ_{×2}(G) ≤ ((ln(1+d) + lnδ + 1)/δ)n$.
We propose the following problem. For some k ≥ 1, a graph G is to be properly edge coloured such that any two adjacent vertices share at most k colours. We call this the k-intersection edge colouring. The minimum number of colours sufficient to guarantee such a colouring is the k-intersection chromatic index and is denoted χ'ₖ(G). Let fₖ be defined by $fₖ(Δ) = max_{G : Δ(G) = Δ} {χ'ₖ(G)}$. We show that fₖ(Δ) = Θ(Δ²/k). We also discuss some open problems.
Let 𝓕 be a set of graphs and for a graph G let $α_{𝓕}(G)$ and $α*_{𝓕}(G)$ denote the maximum order of an induced subgraph of G which does not contain a graph in 𝓕 as a subgraph and which does not contain a graph in 𝓕 as an induced subgraph, respectively. Lower bounds on $α_{𝓕}(G)$ and $α*_{𝓕}(G)$ are presented.
Blanched-Sadri and Woodhouse in 2013 have proven the conjecture of Cassaigne, stating that any pattern with \(m\) distinct variables and of length at least \(2^m\) is avoidable over a ternary alphabet and if the length is at least \(3\cdot 2^{m-1}\) it is avoidable over a binary alphabet. They conjectured that similar theorems are true for partial words – sequences, in which some characters are left “blank”. Using method of entropy compression, we obtain the partial words version of the theorem for ternary words.
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