Note: On the difference of the domination number of a digraph and of its reverse

  • Authors:
  • Štefan Gyürki

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

For a digraph D, the domination number of D is denoted by @c(D), the total domination number of D is denoted by @c"t(D), and the digraph obtained by reversing all the arcs of D is denoted by D^-. We show that the difference @c(D^-)-@c(D) can be arbitrarily large in the class of 2-regular strongly connected digraphs, and similarly, @c"t(D^-)-@c"t(D) can be arbitrarily large in the class of 3-regular strongly connected digraphs. Similar results for larger valencies were proved in Niepel and Knor (2009) [5]. We also show that every 2-regular digraph D satisfies @c"t(D)=@c"t(D^-). Altogether this solves problems 1 and 2 posed in [5].