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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 31(4) (2011) 763-773
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1578

Roman Bondage in Graphs

Nader Jafari Rad

Department of Mathematics
Shahrood University of Technology
Shahrood, Iran
and
School of Mathematics
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
P.O. Box 19395--5746, Tehran, Iran

Lutz Volkmann

Lehrstuhl II für Mathematik
RWTH Aachen University
Templergraben 55, D--52056 Aachen, Germany

Abstract

A Roman dominating function on a graph G is a function f:V(G) →{0,1,2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which f(u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v for which f(v) = 2. The weight of a Roman dominating function is the value f(V(G)) = ∑u ∈ V(G)f(u). The Roman domination number, γR(G), of G is the minimum weight of a Roman dominating function on G. In this paper, we define the Roman bondage bR(G) of a graph G with maximum degree at least two to be the minimum cardinality of all sets E ⊆ E(G) for which γR(G −E) > γR(G). We determine the Roman bondage number in several classes of graphs and give some sharp bounds.

Keywords: domination, Roman domination, Roman bondage number

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C69.

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Received 14 June 2010
Revised 23 November 2010
Accepted 23 November 2010


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