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arxiv: 1803.04031 · v1 · pith:7VBZMTYTnew · submitted 2018-03-11 · 🧮 math.CO

Upper bounds for domination numbers of graphs using Tur\'an's Theorem and Lov\'asz local lemma

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Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ with vertex set $V(G)$. A subset $S\subseteq V(G)$ is an $(a,b)$-dominating set if every vertex $v\in S$ is adjacent to at least $a$ vertices in $S$ and every $v\in V\setminus S$ is adjacent to at least $b$ vertices in $S$. The minimum cardinality of an $(a,b)$-dominating set of $G$ is the $(a,b)$-domination number of $G$, denoted by $\gamma_{a,b}(G)$. There are various results about upper bounds for $\gamma_{a,b}(G)$ when $G$ is regular or $a$ and $b$ are small numbers. In the first part of this paper, for a given graph $G$ with the minimum degree of $\max\{a,b\}$, we define a new graph $G'$ associated to $G$ and show that the independence number of this graph is related to $\gamma_{a,b}(G)$. In the next part, using Lov\'asz local lemma, we give a randomized approach to improve previous results in some special cases.

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