Domatic partition on several classes of graphs

Sheung Hung Poon, William Chung Kung Yen, Chin Ting Ung

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Abstract

The domatic number of a graph G, denoted by DN(G), is the maximum number k such that V can be partitioned into k disjoint dominating sets. The domatic partition problem is to find a partition of the vertices of G into DN(G) dominating sets. The k-domatic partition problem with fixed k is to find a partition of the vertices of G into k dominating sets. In this paper, we show that 3-domatic partition problem is NP-complete on planar bipartite graphs, and the domatic partition problem is NP-complete on co-bipartite graphs. We further show that the unique 3-domatic partition problem is NP-hard on general graphs. Moreover, we propose an O(n)-time algorithm on the 3-domatic partition problem for maximal planar graphs, and O(n 3)-time algorithms on the domatic partition problem for P 4-sparse graphs and tree-cographs, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCombinatorial Optimization and Applications - 6th International Conference, COCOA 2012, Proceedings
Pages245-256
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event6th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2012 - Banff, AB, Canada
Duration: 5 Aug 20129 Aug 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7402 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff, AB
Period5/08/129/08/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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