On r-locating-dominating sets in paths

  • Authors:
  • Iiro Honkala

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Assume that G=(V,E) is a simple undirected graph, and C is a nonempty subset of V. For every vV, we define Ir(v)={uC| dG(u,v)≤r}, where dG(u,v) denotes the number of edges on any shortest path between u and v. If the sets Ir(v) for are pairwise different, and none of them is the empty set, we say that C is an r-locating-dominating set in G. It is shown that the smallest 2-locating-dominating set in a path with n vertices has cardinality [(n+1)/3], which coincides with the lower bound proved earlier by Bertrand, Charon, Hudry and Lobstein. Moreover, we give a general upper bound which improves a result of Bertrand, Charon, Hudry and Lobstein.