Trees with Unique Minimum Semitotal Dominating Sets

Teresa W. Haynes, Michael A. Henning

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Abstract

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a semitotal dominating set of G if it is a dominating set of G and every vertex in S is within distance 2 of another vertex of S. The semitotal domination number is the minimum cardinality of a semitotal dominating set of G. We observe that the semitotal domination number of a graph G falls between its domination number and its total domination number. We provide a characterization of trees that have a unique minimum semitotal dominating set.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)689-702
Number of pages14
JournalGraphs and Combinatorics
Volume36
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2020

Keywords

  • 05C05
  • 05C69
  • Semitotal domination
  • Trees

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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