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Relating the Annihilation Number and the Total Domination Number of a Tree

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a total dominating set if every vertex of G is adjacent to some vertex in S. The total domination number γt(G) is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set in G. The annihilation number a(G) is the largest integer k such that the sum of the first k terms of the non-decreasing degree sequence of G is at most the number of edges in G. In this paper, we investigate relationships between the annihilation number and the total domination number of a graph. Let T be a tree of order n<2. We show that γt(T)≤a(T)+1, and we characterize the extremal trees achieving equality in this bound.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:etsu-works-16123
Date01 February 2013
CreatorsDesormeaux, Wyatt J., Haynes, Teresa W., Henning, Michael A.
PublisherDigital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
Source SetsEast Tennessee State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceETSU Faculty Works

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