Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 32(4) (2012)
629-641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1632
On the Total Restrained Domination Number of Direct Products of Graphs
Wai Chee Shiu
Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University | Hong-Yu Chen
School of Mathematics and System Sciences, Shandong University | Xue-Gang Chen
Department of Mathematics, North China Electric Power University | Pak Kiu Sun
Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University |
Abstract
Let G = (V,E) be a graph. A total restrained dominating set is a set S ⊆ V where every vertex in V∖S is adjacent to a vertex in S as well as to another vertex in V∖S, and every vertex in S is adjacent to another vertex in S. The total restrained domination number of G, denoted by γrt(G), is the smallest cardinality of a total restrained dominating set of G. We determine lower and upper bounds on the total restrained domination number of the direct product of two graphs. Also, we show that these bounds are sharp by presenting some infinite families of graphs that attain these bounds.
Keywords: total domination number, total restrained domination number, direct product of graphs
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C69.
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Received 26 April 2011
Revised 28 November 2011
Accepted 30 November 2011
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