Alliances in graphs

The work

AuthorsPetter Kristiansen; Sandra M. Hedetniemi; Stephen T. Hedetniemi
Editors
Typearticle
Year2004
Citekeykristiansen2004alliances

Where it appeared

Published inJournal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
Volume48
Pages157--177

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Abstract

A defensive alliance in a graph G = (V, E) is a set of vertices S ⊆ V satisfying the condition that every vertex v ∈ S has at most one more neighbor in V − S than it has in S. Because of such an alliance, the vertices in S, agreeing to mutually support each other, have the strength of numbers to be able to defend themselves from the vertices in V − S. In this paper we introduce this new concept, together with a variety of other kinds of alliances, and initiate the study of their mathematical properties.

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@article{kristiansen2004alliances,
  title        = {Alliances in graphs},
  author       = {Petter Kristiansen and Sandra M. Hedetniemi and Stephen T. Hedetniemi},
  year         = {2004},
  journal      = {Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing},
  volume       = {48},
  pages        = {157--177},
}

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