Structural Properties of Connected Domination Critical Graphs

TL;DR

This paper explores the structural properties of connected domination critical graphs, characterizing those with specific cut vertex counts, and establishes conditions for their factor-criticality based on order, degree, and forbidden subgraphs.

Contribution

It characterizes all $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graphs with $k-3$ cut vertices and proves realizability for various parameters, advancing understanding of their structural and factor-critical properties.

Findings

Characterization of $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graphs with $k-3$ cut vertices.

Existence of $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graphs with specified cut vertices and block properties.

Conditions under which such graphs are 1-factor or 2-factor critical based on order and minimum degree.

Abstract

A graph $G$ is said to be $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical if the connected domination number $\gamma_{c}(G)$ is equal to $k$ and $\gamma_{c}(G + uv) < k$ for any pair of non-adjacent vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$. Let $\zeta$ be the number of cut vertices of $G$ and let $\zeta_{0}$ be the maximum number of cut vertices that can be contained in one block. For an integer $\ell \geq 0$, a graph $G$ is $\ell$-factor critical if $G - S$ has a perfect matching for any subset $S$ of vertices of size $\ell$. It was proved that, for $k \geq 3$, every $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graph has at most $k - 2$ cut vertices and the graphs with maximum number of cut vertices were characterized. It was proved further that, for $k \geq 4$, every $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graphs satisfies the inequality $\zeta_{0}(G) \le \min \left\{ \left\lfloor \frac{k + 2}{3} \right\rfloor, \zeta \right\}$. In this paper, we characterize all $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graphs having $k - 3$ cut vertices. Further, we establish realizability that, for given $k \geq 4$, $2 \leq \zeta \leq k - 2$ and $2 \leq \zeta_{0} \le \min \left\{ \left\lfloor \frac{k + 2}{3} \right\rfloor, \zeta \right\}$, there exists a $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graph with $\zeta$ cut vertices having a block which contains $\zeta_{0}$ cut vertices. Finally, we proved that every $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical graph of odd order with minimum degree two is $1$-factor critical if and only if $1 \leq k \leq 2$. Further, we proved that every $k$-$\gamma_{c}$-critical $K_{1, 3}$-free graph of even order with minimum degree three is $2$-factor critical if and only if $1 \leq k \leq 2$.