Matching properties in domination critical graphs
β Scribed by Nawarat Ananchuen; Michael D. Plummer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Volume
- 277
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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β¦ Synopsis
A graph G is said to be k--critical if the size of any minimum dominating set of vertices is k, but if any edge is added to G the resulting graph can be dominated with k -1 vertices. A graph G is factor-critical if G -v has a perfect matching for every vertex v β V (G) and is bicritical if G -u -v has a perfect matching for every pair of distinct vertices u; v β V (G). In the present paper, it is shown that under certain assumptions regarding connectivity and minimum degree, a 3--critical graph G will be either factor-critical (if |V (G)| is odd) or bicritical (if |V (G)| is even).
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## Abstract In this paper we show that every connected, 3βΞ³βcritical graph on more than 6 vertices has a Hamiltonian path.
The smallest cardinality of any such dominating set is called the domination number of G and is denoted by y(G). The purpose of this paper is to initiate an investigation of those graphs which are critical in the following sense: For each v, u E V(G) with v not adjacent to u, y(G + vu) < y(G). Thus