Graphs with equal domination and covering numbers

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Abstract: A dominating set of a graph G is a set DsubseteqVG such that every vertex in VGD is adjacent to at least one vertex in D, and the domination number gamma(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of G. A set CsubseteqVG is a covering set of G if every edge of G has at least one vertex in C. The covering number of G is the minimum cardinality of a covering set of G. The set of connected graphs G for which is denoted by , while calB denotes the set of all connected bipartite graphs in which the domination number is equal to the cardinality of the smaller partite set. In this paper, we provide alternative characterizations of graphs belonging to and calB. Next, we present a quadratic time algorithm for recognizing bipartite graphs belonging to calB, and, as a side result, we conclude that the algorithm of Arumugam et al. [2] allows to recognize all the graphs belonging to the set in quadratic time either. Finally, we consider the related problem of patrolling grids with mobile guards, and show that this problem can be solved in O(nlogn+m) time, where n is the number of line segments of the input grid and m is the number of its intersection points.









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