The problem of monitoring an electric power system by placing as few measurement devices in the system as possible is closely related to the well-known vertex covering and dominating set problems in graph theory. In this paper, it was shown that the power domination number of an outerplanar graph with the diameter two or a 2-connected outerplanar graph with the diameter three is precisely one. Upper bounds on the power domination number for a general planar graph with the diameter two or three were determined as an immediate consequences of results proven by Dorfling, et al. Also, an infinite family of outerplanar graphs with the diameter four having arbitrarily large power domination numbers were given.
Let D = （ V, A ） be a digraph with minimum indegree at least one and girth at least k, where k ≥ 2 is an integer. In this paper, the following results were proved. A digraph D has a （ k, l ）-kernel if and only ff its line digraph L （ D ） does, and the number of （ k, l ）-kernels in D is equal to the number of （ k, l ） -kernels in L （ D ）, where 1 ≤1 〈 k. As a consequence, previous results about k- kernels in the line digraphs were gained.
Given a graph G, a subgraph C is called a clique of G if C is a complete subgraph of G maximal under inclusion and ｜C｜ ≥2. A clique-transversal set S of G is a set of vertices of G such that S meets all cliques of G. The clique-transversal number, denoted as τC（G）, is the minimum cardinality of a clique-transversal set in G. The clique-graph of G, denoted as K（G）, is the graph obtained by taking the cliques of G as vertices, and two vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding cliques in G have nonempty intersection. Let F be a class of graphs G such that F = {G｜ K（G） is a tree}. In this paper the graphs in F having independent clique-transversal sets are shown and thus τC（G）/｜G｜ ≤ 1/2 for all G ∈F.
A set D of vertices of a graph G = （V, E） is called a dominating set if every vertex of V not in D is adjacent to a vertex of D. In 1996, Reed proved that every graph of order n with minimum degree at least 3 has a dominating set of cardinality at most 3n/8. In this paper we generalize Reed＇s result. We show that every graph G of order n with minimum degree at least 2 has a dominating set of cardinality at most （3n ＋IV21）/8, where V2 denotes the set of vertices of degree 2 in G. As an application of the above result, we show that for k ≥ 1, the k-restricted domination number rk （G, γ） ≤ （3n＋5k）/8 for all graphs of order n with minimum degree at least 3.
Er Fang SHANMoo Young SOHNXu Dong YUANMichael A. HENNING
For an arbitrary subset P of the reals, a function f ： V →P is defined to be a P-dominating function of a graph G = （V, E） if the sum of its function values over any closed neighbourhood is at least 1. That is, for every v ∈ V, f（N[v]） ≥ 1. The definition of total P-dominating function is obtained by simply changing ‘closed＇ neighborhood N[v] in the definition of P-dominating function to ‘open＇ neighborhood N（v）. The （total） P-domination number of a graph G is defined to be the infimum of weight w（f） = ∑v ∈ V f（v） taken over all （total） P-dominating function f. Similarly, the P-edge and P-star dominating functions can be defined. In this paper we survey some recent progress on the topic of dominating functions in graph theory. Especially, we are interested in P-, P-edge and P-star dominating functions of graphs with integer values.
A function f： V（ G）→{1,1} defined on the vertices of a graph G is a signed total dominating function （STDF） if the sum of its function values over any open neighborhood is at least one. An STDF f is minimal if there does not extst a STDF g： V（G）→{-1,1}, f≠g, for which g （ v ）≤f（ v ） for every v∈V（ G ）. The weight of a STDF is the sum of its function values over all vertices. The signed total domination number of G is the minimum weight of a STDF of G, while the upper signed domination number of G is the maximum weight of a minimal STDF of G, In this paper, we present sharp upper bounds on the upper signed total domination number of a nearly regular graph.
Let G = (V,E) be a simple graph without isolated vertices. For positive integer k, a 3-valued function f : V → {-1,0,1} is said to be a minus total k-subdominating function (MTkSF) if sum from (u∈N(v)) to f(u)≥1 for at least k vertices v in G, where N(v) is the open neighborhood of v. The minus total k-subdomination number γkt(G) equals the minimum weight of an MTkSF on G. In this paper, the values on the minus total k-subdomination number of some special graphs are investigated. Several lower bounds on γkt of general graphs and trees are obtained.
