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Izv. Saratov Univ. Math. Mech. Inform., 2022 Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 278–286 (Mi isu941)

This article is cited in 2 papers

Scientific Part
Mathematics

Forcing total outer connected monophonic number of a graph

K. Ganesamoorthya, Sh. Lakshmi Priyab

a Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Coimbatore — 641 014, India
b CIT Sandwich Polytechnic College, Department of Mathematics, Coimbatore — 641 014, India

Abstract: For a connected graph $G = (V,E)$ of order at least two, a subset $T$ of a minimum total outer connected monophonic set $S$ of $G$ is a forcing total outer connected monophonic subset for $S$ if $S$ is the unique minimum total outer connected monophonic set containing $T$. A forcing total outer connected monophonic subset for $S$ of minimum cardinality is a minimum forcing total outer connected monophonic subset of $S$. The forcing total outer connected monophonic number $f_{tom}(S)$ in $G$ is the cardinality of a minimum forcing total outer connected monophonic subset of $S$. The forcing total outer connected monophonic number of $G$ is $f_{tom}(G) = \min\{f_{tom}(S)\}$, where the minimum is taken over all minimum total outer connected monophonic sets $S$ in $G$. We determine bounds for it and find the forcing total outer connected monophonic number of a certain class of graphs. It is shown that for every pair $a,b$ of positive integers with $0 \leq a < b$ and $b \geq a+4$, there exists a connected graph $G$ such that $f_{tom}(G) = a$ and $cm_{to}(G) = b$, where $cm_{to}(G)$ is the total outer connected monophonic number of a graph.

Key words: total outer connected monophonic set, total outer connected monophonic number, forcing total outer connected monophonic subset, forcing total outer connected monophonic number.

UDC: 519.17

Received: 15.09.2021
Accepted: 12.12.2021

Language: English

DOI: 10.18500/1816-9791-2022-22-3-278-286



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