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Diskretn. Anal. Issled. Oper., 2023 Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 28–39 (Mi da1314)

On a countable family of boundary graph classes for the dominating set problem

G. S. Dakhnoa, D. S. Malyshevba

a National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, 25/12 Bolshaya Pechyorskaya Street, 603155 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
b Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod University, 23 Gagarin Avenue, 603950 Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

Abstract: The hereditary class is a set of simple graphs closed under deletion of vertices; every such class is defined by the set of its minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. If this set is finite, then it is called finitely defined. The concept of a boundary class is a useful tool for analysis of the computational complexity of graph problems in the finitely defined classes family. The dominating set problem for a given graph is to determine whether it has a given-size subset of vertices such that every vertex outside the subset has at least one neighbor in the subset. Previously, exactly 4 boundary classes were known for this problem (if $\mathbb{P}\neq \mathbb{NP}$). This work considers some countable set of concrete classes of graphs and proves that each its element is a boundary class for the dominating set problem (if $\mathbb{P}\neq \mathbb{NP}$). We also prove $\mathbb{NP}$-completeness of this problem for graphs that contain neither induced 6-path nor induced 4-clique, which means that the set of known boundary classes for the dominating set problem is not complete (if $\mathbb{P}\neq \mathbb{NP}$). Bibliogr. 11.

Keywords: hereditary graph class, computational complexity, dominating set.

UDC: 519.17

Received: 29.05.2022
Revised: 23.10.2022
Accepted: 24.10.2022

DOI: 10.33048/daio.2023.30.742


 English version:
Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 2023, 17:1, 25–31

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