Completion and decomposition of hypergraphs into dominating sets of graphs

The collection of the vertex dominating sets of a graph defines a hypergraph on the set of vertices of the graph. However, there are hypergraphs H that are not the collection of the vertex dominating sets of any graph. This paper deals with the question of completing these hypergraphs H to the verte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Martí Farré, Jaume|||0000-0002-2596-5971, Mora Giné, Mercè|||0000-0001-6923-0320, Ruiz Muñoz, José Luis|||0000-0002-2245-7752
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/81940
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/81940
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.endm.2015.06.031
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
Graph
hypergraph
dominating set
Grafs, Teoria de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Teoria de grafs
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Sumario:The collection of the vertex dominating sets of a graph defines a hypergraph on the set of vertices of the graph. However, there are hypergraphs H that are not the collection of the vertex dominating sets of any graph. This paper deals with the question of completing these hypergraphs H to the vertex dominating sets of some graphs G. We demonstrate that such graphs G exist and, in addition, we prove that these graphs define a poset whose minimal elements provide a decomposition of H. Moreover, we show that the hypergraph H is uniquely determined by the minimal elements of this poset. The computation of such minimal elements is also discussed in some cases.