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A note on an induced subgraph characterization of domination perfect graphs

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Let γ(G) and ι(G) be the domination and independent domination numbers of a graph G, respectively. Introduced by Sumner and Moorer (1979), a graph G is domination perfect if γ(H)=ι(H) for every induced subgraph HG. In 1991, Zverovich and Zverovich (1991)proposed a characterization of domination perfect graphs in terms of forbidden induced subgraphs. Fulman (1993) noticed that this characterization is not correct. Later, Zverovich and Zverovich (1995) offered such a second characterization with 17 forbidden induced subgraphs. However, the latter still needs to be adjusted.

In this paper, we point out a counterexample. We then give a new characterization of domination perfect graphs in terms of only 8 forbidden induced subgraphs and a short proof thereof. Moreover, in the class of domination perfect graphs, we propose a polynomial-time algorithm computing, given a dominating set D, an independent dominating set Y such that |Y||D|.

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Discrete Applied Mathematics, 217(Part 3), 711–712, 2017 BibTeX reference

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