The total {k}-domatic number of wheels and complete graphs

Jing Chen, Xinmin Hou () and Ning Li
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Jing Chen: University of Science and Technology of China
Xinmin Hou: University of Science and Technology of China
Ning Li: University of Science and Technology of China

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2012, vol. 24, issue 3, No 2, 162-175

Abstract: Abstract Let k be a positive integer and let G be a graph with vertex set V(G). The total {k}-dominating function (T{k}DF) of a graph G is a function f from V(G) to the set {0,1,2,…,k}, such that for each vertex v∈V(G), the sum of the values of all its neighbors assigned by f is at least k. A set {f 1,f 2,…,f d } of pairwise different T{k}DFs of G with the property that $\sum_{i=1}^{d}f_{i}(v)\leq k$ for each v∈V(G), is called a total {k}-dominating family (T{k}D family) of G. The total {k}-domatic number of a graph G, denoted by $d_{t}^{\{k\}}(G)$ , is the maximum number of functions in a T{k}D family. In this paper, we determine the exact values of the total {k}-domatic numbers of wheels and complete graphs, which answers an open problem of Sheikholeslami and Volkmann (J. Comb. Optim., 2010) and completes a result in the same paper.

Keywords: Total {k}-dominating function; Total {k}-dominating family; Total {k}-domatic number; Wheels; Complete graphs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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