On outer-connected domination for graph products

TL;DR

This paper studies the outer-connected domination number in various graph products, providing bounds, existence conditions, and an equivalent form of Vizing's conjecture for these parameters.

Contribution

It introduces new bounds and conditions for outer-connected domination in lexicographic, Cartesian, and direct graph products, and relates these to Vizing's conjecture.

Findings

Upper bounds for outer-connected domination in graph products.

Existence conditions for outer-connected dominating sets.

An equivalent form of Vizing's conjecture for outer-connected domination.

Abstract

An outer-connected dominating set for an arbitrary graph $G$ is a set $\tilde{D} \subseteq V$ such that $\tilde{D}$ is a dominating set and the induced subgraph $G [V \setminus \tilde{D}]$ be connected. In this paper, we focus on the outer-connected domination number of the product of graphs. We investigate the existence of outer-connected dominating set in lexicographic product and Corona of two arbitrary graphs, and we present upper bounds for outer-connected domination number in lexicographic and Cartesian product of graphs. Also, we establish an equivalent form of the Vizing's conjecture for outer-connected domination number in lexicographic and Cartesian product as $\tilde{\gamma_c}(G \circ K)\tilde{\gamma_c}(H \circ K) \leq \tilde{\gamma_c}(G\Box H)\circ K$. Furthermore, we study the outer-connected domination number of the direct product of finitely many complete graphs.