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Schaudt, Oliver (2010). A Graph Class related to the Structural Domination Problem. Working Paper.

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Abstract

In the structural domination problem one is concerned with the question if a given graph has a connected dominating set whose induced subgraph has certain structural properties. For most of the common graph properties, the associated decision problem is NP-hard. Recently, Bacsô and Tuza gave a full characterization of the graphs whose every induced subgraph has a connected dominating set satisfying an arbitrary prescribed hereditary property. Using the Theorem of Bacsô and Tuza, we derive a finite forbidden subgraph characterization of the distance-hereditary graphs that have a dominating induced tree. Furthermore, we show that for distance-hereditary graphs minimum dominating induced trees can be found efficiently. The main part of the paper studies a new class of graphs, the extit{structural domination class}, which is closely related to the structural domination problem. Among other results, we give new characterizations of certain subclasses of distance-hereditary graphs (in particular for ptolemaic graphs) and analyse the structure of minimum connected dominating sets of structural domination graphs. It turns out that many of the problems associated to structural domination become tractable on the hereditary part of the structural domination class.

Item Type:	Preprints, Working Papers or Reports (Working Paper)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schaudt, Oliver UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-550014
Journal or Publication Title:	Discrete Mathematics
Date:	2010
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Institute of Computer Science
Subjects:	Data processing Computer science
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/55001