Authors: Akira Suzuki Amer E Mouawad Naomi Nishimura
Publish Date: 2015/08/28
Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 1182-1195
Abstract
We explore a reconfiguration version of the dominating set problem where a dominating set in a graph G is a set S of vertices such that each vertex is either in S or has a neighbour in S In a reconfiguration problem the goal is to determine whether there exists a sequence of feasible solutions connecting given feasible solutions s and t such that each pair of consecutive solutions is adjacent according to a specified adjacency relation Two dominating sets are adjacent if one can be formed from the other by the addition or deletion of a single vertex For various values of k we consider properties of D kG the graph consisting of a node for each dominating set of size at most k and edges specified by the adjacency relation Addressing an open question posed by Haas and Seyffarth we demonstrate that D varGamma G+1G is not necessarily connected for varGamma G the maximum cardinality of a minimal dominating set in G The result holds even when graphs are constrained to be planar of bounded treewidth or bpartite for b ge 3 Moreover we construct an infinite family of graphs such that D gamma G+1G has exponential diameter for gamma G the minimum size of a dominating set On the positive side we show that D nmu G is connected and of linear diameter for any graph G on n vertices with a matching of size at least mu +1
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