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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Authors:

A. Cabrera Martínez

Abel Cabrera Martínez

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

email: abel.cabrera@urv.cat

0000-0003-2806-4842

J.A. Rodríguez-Velázquez

Juan Alberto Rodríguez-Velázquez

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

email: juanalberto.rodriguez@urv.cat

0000-0002-9082-7647

Title:

Total protection of lexicographic product graphs

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 42(3) (2022) 967-984

Received: 2019-06-13 , Revised: 2020-03-25 , Accepted: 2020-03-26 , Available online: 2020-04-21 , https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.2318

Abstract:

Given a graph $G$ with vertex set $V(G)$, a function $f : V(G) \rightarrow \{0,1,2 \}$ is said to be a total dominating function if $\sum_{u\in N(v)}f(u)>0$ for every $v\in V(G)$, where $N(v)$ denotes the open neighbourhood of $v$. Let $V_i=\{x\in V(G):f(x)=i\}$. A total dominating function $f$ is a total weak Roman dominating function if for every vertex $v\in V_0$ there exists a vertex $u\in N(v)\cap (V_1\cup V_2)$ such that the function $f'$, defined by $f'(v)=1$, $f'(u)=f(u)-1$ and $f'(x)=f(x)$ whenever $x\in V(G)\setminus\{u,v\}$, is a total dominating function as well. If $f$ is a total weak Roman dominating function and $V_2=\emptyset$, then we say that $f$ is a secure total dominating function. The weight of a function $f$ is defined to be $\omega(f)= \sum_{v\in V(G)} f(v).$ The total weak Roman domination number (secure total domination number) of a graph $G$ is the minimum weight among all total weak Roman dominating functions (secure total dominating functions) on $G$. In this article, we show that these two parameters coincide for lexicographic product graphs. Furthermore, we obtain closed formulae and tight bounds for these parameters in terms of invariants of the factor graphs involved in the product.

Keywords:

total weak Roman domination, secure total domination, total domination, lexicographic product

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