New complexity results on Roman {2}-domination

• Autores: Leoni, Valeria Alejandra; Fernández, Lara Iliana
• Año de publicación: 2023
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: CATERPILLAR; DECOMPOSITION; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; NP-COMPLETE
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

The study of a variant of Roman domination was initiated by Chellali et al. [Discrete Appl. Math. 204 (2016) 22- 28]. Given a graph G with vertex set V, a Roman {2}-dominating function f: V → {0, 1, 2} has the property that for every vertex v ϵ V with f(v) = 0, either there exists a vertex u adjacent to v with f(u) = 2, or at least two vertices x, y adjacent to v with f(x) = f(y) = 1. The weight of a Roman {2}-dominating function is the value f(V) = ∑ vϵ V f(v). The minimum weight of a Roman {2}-dominating function is called the Roman {2}-domination number and is denoted by γ{R2}(G). In this work we find several NP-complete instances of the Roman {2}-domination problem: chordal graphs, bipartite planar graphs, chordal bipartite graphs, bipartite with maximum degree 3 graphs, among others. A result by Chellali et al. [Discrete Appl. Math. 204 (2016) 22- 28] shows that γ{R2}(G) and the 2-rainbow domination number of G coincide when G is a tree, and thus, the linear time algorithm for k-rainbow domination due to Brešar et al. [Taiwan J. Math. 12 (2008) 213- 225] can be followed to compute γ{R2}(G). In this work we develop an efficient algorithm that is independent of k-rainbow domination and computes the Roman {2}-domination number on a subclass of trees called caterpillars.
Fil: Leoni, Valeria Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura. Escuela de Ciencias Básicas; Argentina
Fil: Fernández, Lara Iliana. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Ingeniería y Agrimensura. Escuela de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Matemática; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina