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Gamma Graphs Of Some Special Classes Of Trees Cover
By: Anna Bień  
Open Access
|Sep 2015

Abstract

A set SV is a dominating set of a graph G = (V, E) if every vertex υV which does not belong to S has a neighbour in S. The domination number γ(G) of the graph G is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set in G. A dominating set S is a γ-set in G if |S| = γ(G).

Some graphs have exponentially many γ-sets, hence it is worth to ask a question if a γ-set can be obtained by some transformations from another γ-set. The study of gamma graphs is an answer to this reconfiguration problem. We give a partial answer to the question which graphs are gamma graphs of trees. In the second section gamma graphs γ.T of trees with diameter not greater than five will be presented. It will be shown that hypercubes Qk are among γ.T graphs. In the third section γ.T graphs of certain trees with three pendant vertices will be analysed. Additionally, some observations on the diameter of gamma graphs will be presented, in response to an open question, published by Fricke et al., if diam(T (γ)) = O(n)?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/amsil-2015-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2391-4238 | Journal ISSN: 0860-2107
Language: English
Page range: 25 - 34
Submitted on: May 2, 2015
Published on: Sep 30, 2015
Published by: University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Mathematics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
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