On Well-VE-Dominated Graphs

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Auteur principal: Büyükçolak, Yasemin
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author Büyükçolak, Yasemin
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contents Given a graph G=(V, E), a vertex is said to ve-dominate an edge if it is either incident with the edge or adjacent to one of its endpoints. A set of vertices is a ve-dominating set if it ve-dominates every edge of the graph. We introduce the class of well-ve-dominated graphs, defined as graphs in which all minimal ve-dominating sets have the same cardinality. After establishing several general structural properties of well-ve-dominated graphs, we show that recognizing whether a graph belongs to this class is co--NP--complete, highlighting the computational difficulty of the problem. Our main result is a complete structural characterization of well-ve-dominated trees, which yields a simple linear-time recognition algorithm and a constructive description of all trees in this class.
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spellingShingle On Well-VE-Dominated Graphs
Büyükçolak, Yasemin
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C69, 05C75
Given a graph G=(V, E), a vertex is said to ve-dominate an edge if it is either incident with the edge or adjacent to one of its endpoints. A set of vertices is a ve-dominating set if it ve-dominates every edge of the graph. We introduce the class of well-ve-dominated graphs, defined as graphs in which all minimal ve-dominating sets have the same cardinality. After establishing several general structural properties of well-ve-dominated graphs, we show that recognizing whether a graph belongs to this class is co--NP--complete, highlighting the computational difficulty of the problem. Our main result is a complete structural characterization of well-ve-dominated trees, which yields a simple linear-time recognition algorithm and a constructive description of all trees in this class.
title On Well-VE-Dominated Graphs
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C69, 05C75
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12231