Note: On the 2-rainbow domination in graphs

  • Authors:
  • Boštjan Brešar;Tadeja Kraner Šumenjak

  • Affiliations:
  • FEECS, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia;FA, University of Maribor, Vrbanska 30, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The concept of 2-rainbow domination of a graph G coincides with the ordinary domination of the prism G@?K"2. In this paper, we show that the problem of deciding if a graph has a 2-rainbow dominating function of a given weight is NP-complete even when restricted to bipartite graphs or chordal graphs. Exact values of 2-rainbow domination numbers of several classes of graphs are found, and it is shown that for the generalized Petersen graphs GP(n,k) this number is between @?4n/5@? and n with both bounds being sharp.