## Dorbec, Paul and Varghese, Seethu and Vijayakumar, Ambat - Heredity for generalized power domination

dmtcs:1422 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, April 3, 2016, Vol. 18 no. 3
Heredity for generalized power domination

Authors: Dorbec, Paul and Varghese, Seethu and Vijayakumar, Ambat

In this paper, we study the behaviour of the generalized power domination number of a graph by small changes on the graph, namely edge and vertex deletion and edge contraction. We prove optimal bounds for $\gamma_{p,k}(G-e)$, $\gamma_{p,k}(G/e)$ and for $\gamma_{p,k}(G-v)$ in terms of $\gamma_{p,k}(G)$, and give examples for which these bounds are tight. We characterize all graphs for which $\gamma_{p,k}(G-e) = \gamma_{p,k}(G)+1$ for any edge $e$. We also consider the behaviour of the propagation radius of graphs by similar modifications.

Source : oai:HAL:hal-01207482v3
Volume: Vol. 18 no. 3
Section: Graph Theory
Published on: April 3, 2016
Submitted on: March 31, 2016
Keywords: power domination,heredity,vertex deletion,edge deletion,edge contraction,propagation radius,[INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM],[MATH.MATH-CO] Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]