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Gary MacGillivray
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
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Eternal domination and clique covering Gary MacGillivray; C. M. Mynhardt; Virgélot Virgile
Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications (EJGTA) Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications
Publisher : GTA Research Group, Univ. Newcastle, Indonesian Combinatorics Society and ITB

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5614/ejgta.2022.10.2.19

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We study the relationship between the eternal domination number of a graph and its clique cove-ring number using both large-scale computation and analytic methods. In doing so, we answer two open questions of Klostermeyer and Mynhardt. We show that the smallest graph having its eternal domination number less than its clique covering number has 10 vertices. We determine the complete set of 10-vertex and 11-vertex graphs having eternal domination numbers less than their clique covering numbers. We show that the smallest triangle-free graph with this property has order 13, as does the smallest circulant graph. We describe a method to generate an infinite family of triangle-free graphs and an infinite family of circulant graphs with eternal domination numbers less than their clique covering numbers. We also consider planar graphs and cubic graphs. Finally, we show that for any integer k ≥ 2 there exist infinitely many graphs having domination number and eternal domination number equal to k containing dominating sets which are not eternal dominating sets.
Co-Authors C. M. Mynhardt Virgélot Virgile