Abstract

Let G = (V, E) be a simple, undirected and connected graph. A dominating set S is called a secure dominating set if for each u ∈ V \ S, there exists v ∈ S such that (u, v) ∈ E and (S \{v}) ∪{u} is a dominating set of G. If further the vertex v ∈ S is unique, then S is called a perfect secure dominating set (PSDS). The perfect secure domination number γps(G) is the minimum cardinality of a perfect secure dominating set of G. Given a graph G and a positive integer k, the perfect secure domination (PSDOM) problem is to check whether G has a PSDS of size at most k. In this paper, we prove that PSDOM problem is NP-complete for split graphs, star convex bipartite graphs, comb convex bipartite graphs, planar graphs and dually chordal graphs. We propose a linear time algorithm to solve the PSDOM problem in caterpillar trees and also show that this problem is linear time solvable for bounded tree-width graphs and threshold graphs, a subclass of split graphs. Finally, we show that the domination and perfect secure domination problems are not equivalent in computational complexity aspects.

Highlights

  • Throughout this paper all graphs G = (V, E) should be finite, simple, undirected and connected with vertex set V and edge set E

  • A set S ⊆ V is said to be a perfect secure dominating set (PSDS) of G, if S is a dominating set of G and for every vertex u ∈ V \ S, there exists a unique vertex v ∈ S such that (u, v) ∈ E and (S \ {v}) ∪ {u} is a dominating set in G

  • We have shown that perfect secure domination (PSDOM) problem is NP-complete for split graphs, star convex bipartite graphs, comb convex bipartite graphs, planar graphs and dually chordal graphs

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Summary

Introduction

A dominating set S of G is called a perfect dominating set (PDS) of G if every vertex in V \ S is adjacent to exactly one vertex in S. A set S ⊆ V is said to be a perfect secure dominating set (PSDS) of G, if S is a dominating set of G and for every vertex u ∈ V \ S, there exists a unique vertex v ∈ S such that (u, v) ∈ E and (S \ {v}) ∪ {u} is a dominating set in G. The following observation regarding perfect secure dominating set of a graph will be used throughout this paper.

Complexity results
Perfect secure domination in planar graphs
Perfect secure domination in dually chordal graphs
Caterpillar tree
Threshold graphs
Bounded tree-width graphs
Complexity difference in domination and perfect secure domination
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