Algorithmic aspects of paired disjunctive domination in graphs

Abstract

In a graph G = (V , E) without an isolated vertex, a dominating set D ⊆ V is a paired dominating set if the graph G[D] induced by D has a perfect matching. Further, a set D ⊆ V is a disjunctive dominating set of G if for each vertex v ∈ V , either N G [v] ∩ D = ∅ or there are at least two vertices in D whose distance from v is two in G. We introduce the notion of paired disjunctive domination in graphs. A disjunctive dominating set D ⊆ V in the graph G is a paired disjunctive dominating set if G[D] has a perfect matching. The minimum cardinality of a paired disjunctive dominating set of G is the paired disjunctive domination number, denoted by γ d pr(G). In this article, we compute the exact value of γ d pr(G) when G is a path, cycle, cograph, chain graph, and split graph. We prove that the decision version of the problem is NPcomplete for planar graphs, bipartite graphs, and chordal graphs and design a polynomialtime algorithm to compute a minimum cardinality paired disjunctive dominating set in interval graphs. Further, we obtain lower and upper bounds on the approximation ratio of the problem and proved that the problem is APX-complete for the graphs with maximum degree 4.