Minimum paired-dominating set in chordal bipartite graphs and perfect elimination bipartite graphs

  • Authors:
  • B. S. Panda;D. Pradhan

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Application Group, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India 110016;Computer Science and Application Group, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India 110016

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A set D⊆V of a graph G=(V,E) is a dominating set of G if every vertex in V驴D has at least one neighbor in D. A dominating set D of G is a paired-dominating set of G if the induced subgraph, G[D], has a perfect matching. Given a graph G=(V,E) and a positive integer k, the paired-domination problem is to decide whether G has a paired-dominating set of cardinality at most k. The paired-domination problem is known to be NP-complete for bipartite graphs. In this paper, we, first, strengthen this complexity result by showing that the paired-domination problem is NP-complete for perfect elimination bipartite graphs. We, then, propose a linear time algorithm to compute a minimum paired-dominating set of a chordal bipartite graph, a well studied subclass of bipartite graphs.