Offensive alliances in cubic graphs

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Abstract: An offensive alliance in a graph Gamma=(V,E) is a set of vertices SsubsetV where for every vertex v in its boundary it holds that the majority of vertices in v's closed neighborhood are in S. In the case of strong offensive alliance, strict majority is required. An alliance S is called global if it affects every vertex in , that is, S is a dominating set of Gamma. The global offensive alliance number gammao(Gamma) (respectively, global strong offensive alliance number gammahato(Gamma)) is the minimum cardinality of a global offensive (respectively, global strong offensive) alliance in Gamma. If Gamma has global independent offensive alliances, then the emph{global independent offensive alliance number} gammai(Gamma) is the minimum cardinality among all independent global offensive alliances of Gamma. In this paper we study mathematical properties of the global (strong) alliance number of cubic graphs. For instance, we show that for all connected cubic graph of order n, frac{2n}{5}le gamma_i(Gamma)le frac{n}{2}le gamma_{hat{o}}(Gamma)le frac{3n}{4} le gamma_{hat{o}}({cal L}(Gamma))=gamma_{o}({cal L}(Gamma))le n, where calL(Gamma) denotes the line graph of Gamma. All the above bounds are tight.












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