Young domination on Hamming rectangles

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Autori principali: Gravner, Janko, Krnc, Matjaž, Milanič, Martin, Raymond, Jean-Florent
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author Gravner, Janko
Krnc, Matjaž
Milanič, Martin
Raymond, Jean-Florent
author_facet Gravner, Janko
Krnc, Matjaž
Milanič, Martin
Raymond, Jean-Florent
contents We introduce a family of domination-type problems in Cartesian products of two graphs. The framework captures several well-studied topics, including variants of bootstrap percolation, line growth, distance domination, and target set selection. We focus on Cartesian products of two complete graphs and formulate the notion of Young domination number in terms of a growth rule determined by a Young diagram; this number is the smallest cardinality of an initial set that covers the entire vertex set in a prescribed number $L$ of iterations of the rule. We compute the Young domination number with $L=1$ for several natural cases, including $k$-domination for Cartesian products of two complete graphs of the same order, thereby proving a conjecture from 2009 due to Burchett, Lane, and Lachniet. We show that the case of $L=1$ of Young domination is equivalent to computing bipartite Turán numbers for families of double stars, yielding implications of our results in extremal graph theory. For arbitrary fixed $L$, we devise constant-factor approximation algorithms for the problem. Our approach is based on a variety of techniques, including duality between Young diagrams, algebraic formulations, explicit constructions, and dynamic programming.
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Gravner, Janko
Krnc, Matjaž
Milanič, Martin
Raymond, Jean-Florent
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
05C35 (Primary) 05C69, 05C85, 68W25 (Secondary)
We introduce a family of domination-type problems in Cartesian products of two graphs. The framework captures several well-studied topics, including variants of bootstrap percolation, line growth, distance domination, and target set selection. We focus on Cartesian products of two complete graphs and formulate the notion of Young domination number in terms of a growth rule determined by a Young diagram; this number is the smallest cardinality of an initial set that covers the entire vertex set in a prescribed number $L$ of iterations of the rule. We compute the Young domination number with $L=1$ for several natural cases, including $k$-domination for Cartesian products of two complete graphs of the same order, thereby proving a conjecture from 2009 due to Burchett, Lane, and Lachniet. We show that the case of $L=1$ of Young domination is equivalent to computing bipartite Turán numbers for families of double stars, yielding implications of our results in extremal graph theory. For arbitrary fixed $L$, we devise constant-factor approximation algorithms for the problem. Our approach is based on a variety of techniques, including duality between Young diagrams, algebraic formulations, explicit constructions, and dynamic programming.
title Young domination on Hamming rectangles
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
05C35 (Primary) 05C69, 05C85, 68W25 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03788