A Constructive Characterization of Vertex Cover Roman Trees

A Roman dominating function on a graph G = (V (G), E(G)) is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which f (u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v for which f (v) = 2. The Roman dominating function f is an outer-independent Roman dominating function on...

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Main Authors: Martínez Abel Cabrera, Kuziak Dorota, Yero Ismael G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-02-01
Series:Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.2179
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Summary:A Roman dominating function on a graph G = (V (G), E(G)) is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which f (u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v for which f (v) = 2. The Roman dominating function f is an outer-independent Roman dominating function on G if the set of vertices labeled with zero under f is an independent set. The outer-independent Roman domination number γoiR(G) is the minimum weight w(f) = Σv∈V (G)f (v) of any outer-independent Roman dominating function f of G. A vertex cover of a graph G is a set of vertices that covers all the edges of G. The minimum cardinality of a vertex cover is denoted by α(G). A graph G is a vertex cover Roman graph if γoiR(G) = 2α(G). A constructive characterization of the vertex cover Roman trees is given in this article.
ISSN:2083-5892