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Mat. Zametki, 2022 Volume 111, Issue 2, Pages 297–304 (Mi mzm13227)

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Perfect Domination Polynomial of Homogeneous Caterpillar Graphs and of Full Binary Trees

Temesgen Engida Yimer, J. Baskar Babujee

Department of Mathematics, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, 600044 India

Abstract: Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple graph of order $n$. A set $S \subseteq V(G)$ is a perfect dominating set of a graph $G$ if every vertex $v\in V(G)-S$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $S$. That is, every vertex outside $S$ has exactly one neighbor in $S$. Every graph $G$ has at least the trivial perfect dominating sets consisting of all vertices in $G$. The perfect domination number $\gamma_{pf} (G)$ is the minimal cardinality of dominating sets in $G$. Let $D_{pf} (G,i)$ be the family of perfect dominating sets for a graph $G$ with cardinality $i$ and $d_{pf} (G,i)= |D_{pf} (G,i)|$. The perfect domination polynomial of a graph $G$ of order $n$ is
$$ D_{pf} (G,x)=\sum_{i=\gamma_{pf}(G)}^{n} d_{pf}(G,i)x^n, $$
where $d_{pf} (G,i)$ is the number of perfect dominating sets of $G$ of size $i$. In this paper, we studied the perfect domination polynomial $D_{pf} (G,x)$ of homogeneous caterpillar graphs and of full binary trees.

Keywords: perfect domination sets, perfect domination polynomial, homogeneous caterpillar graphs, full binary tree, corona graph.

Received: 16.07.2021

Language: English


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Mathematical Notes, 2022, 111:2, 297–304

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