Protection of Graphs. Generic results with emphasis on Cartesian and Lexicographic product of graphs

Suppose that one or more entities are stationed at some of the vertices of a graph G and that an entity at a vertex can deal with a problem at any vertex in its closed neighbourhood. Informally, we say that G is protected under a given placement of entities if there exists at least one entity availa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Valveny Juncosa, Magdalena
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/122346
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/122346
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:graph
lexicographic product of graphs
protection of graphs
weak roman domination
secure domination
cartesian product of graphs
gráficos
protección de gráficos
dominación romana débil
dominación segura
producto lexicográfico de gráficos
producto cartesiano de gráficos
gràfics
protecció de gràfics
feble dominació romana
dominació segura
producte lexicogràfic de gràfics
producte cartesià de gràfics
Mathematics -- TFM
Matemàtica -- TFM
Matemática -- TFM
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Sumario:Suppose that one or more entities are stationed at some of the vertices of a graph G and that an entity at a vertex can deal with a problem at any vertex in its closed neighbourhood. Informally, we say that G is protected under a given placement of entities if there exists at least one entity available to handle a problem at any vertex. Cockayne et al. [Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications 39 (2003) 87{100] proposed four properties of such functions under which the entire graph may be protected according to a certain strategy. In each case the parameter of interest will be the minimum weight of a function in the subclass (minimum number of entities used). In this work, we obtain closed formulae and tight bounds for two of these protection types: weak Roman domination number and secure domination number; focusing in lexicographic and Cartesian product graphs in terms of invariants of the factor graphs involved in the product. It is shown that the problem of computing the weak Roman domination number (Henning and Hedetniemi [Discrete Math. 266 (2003) 239-251]) and secure domination number (Boumediene Merouane and Chellali [Inform. Process. Lett. 115 (10) (2015) 786{790.]) is NP-Hard, even when restricted to bipartite or chordal graphs. This suggests nding the domination number for special classes of graphs or obtaining good bounds on this invariant.