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Independent Domination in Claw-Free Cubic Graphs

Linyu Li 1 and Jun Yue 2,*

1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

2 School of Mathematics Science, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China

* Correspondence: yuejun06@126.com

Received: 7 June 2024; Revised: 5 August 2024; Accepted: 13 August 2024; Published: 22 August 2024

 

Abstract: A vertex set S of a graph G is called an independent dominating set if S is an independent set and each vertex in V(G)\S is adjacent to a vertex in S. The independent domination number i(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of an independent dominating set in G. This paper first proves that if G is a connected -free cubic graph, then . Meanwhile,  if and only if , where is an infinite cubic family with each graph being a -necklace. Then, it is shown that if G is a -free cubic graph with no -component, then . This result is tight.

Keywords:

independent domination claw-free cubic graphs

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