A dual view of Roman Domination: The 2-limited packing problem

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Hauptverfasser: Bachtler, Oliver, Krumke, Sven O., Weiß, Helena
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author Bachtler, Oliver
Krumke, Sven O.
Weiß, Helena
author_facet Bachtler, Oliver
Krumke, Sven O.
Weiß, Helena
contents We consider the 2-limited packing problem: for a graph $G=(V,E)$ one seeks to find a maximum cardinality subset $B\subseteq V$, such that, for all $v\in V$, the closed neighbourhood of $v$ contains at most two vertices in $B$. We compare this packing problem to the well-known Roman domination problem by pointing out some similarities and differences in the behaviour of the optimal solutions of both problems and show that these two problems are weakly dual. We show that for trees, the two problems are strongly dual, letting us solve the Roman domination problem by computing an optimal solution to the 2-limited packing problem.
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spellingShingle A dual view of Roman Domination: The 2-limited packing problem
Bachtler, Oliver
Krumke, Sven O.
Weiß, Helena
Combinatorics
05C69, 05C05, 05C85
We consider the 2-limited packing problem: for a graph $G=(V,E)$ one seeks to find a maximum cardinality subset $B\subseteq V$, such that, for all $v\in V$, the closed neighbourhood of $v$ contains at most two vertices in $B$. We compare this packing problem to the well-known Roman domination problem by pointing out some similarities and differences in the behaviour of the optimal solutions of both problems and show that these two problems are weakly dual. We show that for trees, the two problems are strongly dual, letting us solve the Roman domination problem by computing an optimal solution to the 2-limited packing problem.
title A dual view of Roman Domination: The 2-limited packing problem
topic Combinatorics
05C69, 05C05, 05C85
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19748