NP-completeness and APX-completeness of restrained domination in graphs

  • Authors:
  • Lei Chen;Weiming Zeng;Changhong Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China;College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China;Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Let G=(V,E) be a simple graph. A vertex set S@?V is a restrained dominating set if every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S and to a vertex in V-S. In this paper, we investigate the NP-completeness of the restrained domination problem in planar graphs and split graphs. Meanwhile, it is proved that the restrained domination problem is APX-complete for bounded-degree graphs.