1. The domination number of plane triangulations
- Author
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Simon Špacapan
- Subjects
Triangulation (topology) ,Class (set theory) ,Plane (geometry) ,Domination analysis ,010102 general mathematics ,0102 computer and information sciences ,Computer Science::Computational Geometry ,01 natural sciences ,Theoretical Computer Science ,Combinatorics ,Computational Theory and Mathematics ,010201 computation theory & mathematics ,Dominating set ,05C10, 05C69 ,FOS: Mathematics ,Mathematics - Combinatorics ,Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics ,Combinatorics (math.CO) ,0101 mathematics ,Graph operations ,Mathematics - Abstract
We introduce a class of plane graphs called weak near-triangulations, and prove that this class is closed under certain graph operations. Then we use the properties of weak near-triangulations to prove that every plane triangulation on n > 6 vertices has a dominating set of size at most 17 n / 53 . This improves the bound n / 3 obtained by Matheson and Tarjan.
- Published
- 2020