June 10, 2023
Doost Ali Mojdeh

Doost Ali Mojdeh

Degree: Professor
Address: Department of Mathematics, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran
Education: Ph.D in Mathematics (Graph Theory and Combinatorics)
Phone: 011-35302448
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematical Sciences

Research

Title Total domination in cubic Knodel graphs
Type Article
Keywords
Knodel graph, domination number, total domination number, Pigeonhole Principle
Journal Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization
DOI 10.22049/CCO.2020.26793.1143
Researchers Doost Ali Mojdeh (First researcher) , Seyed Reza Musawi (Second researcher) , Esmail Nazari (Third researcher) , Nader Jafari Rad (Fourth researcher)

Abstract

A subset $D$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a \textit{dominating set} if for each $u\in V(G) \setminus D$, $u$ is adjacent to some vertex $v\in D$. The \textit{domination number}, $\gamma(G)$ of $G$, is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of $G$. A set $D\subseteq V(G)$ is a \textit{total dominating set} if for each $u\in V(G)$, $u$ is adjacent to some vertex $v\in D$. The \textit{total domination number}, $\gamma_{t}(G)$ of $G$, is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set of $G$. For an even integer $n\ge 2$ and $1\le \Delta \le \lfloor\log_2n\rfloor$, a \textit{Kn\"odel graph} $W_{\Delta,n}$ is a $\Delta$-regular bipartite graph of even order $n$, with vertices $(i,j)$, for $i=1,2$ and $0\le j\le n/2-1$, where for every $j$, $0\le j\le n/2-1$, there is an edge between vertex $(1, j)$ and every vertex $(2,(j+2^k-1)$ mod (n/2)), for $k=0,1,\cdots,\Delta-1$. In this paper, we determine the total domination number in $3$-regular Kn\"odel graphs $W_{3,n}$.