Bondage Number of 1-Planar Graph

Qiaoling Ma, Sumei Zhang, Jihui Wang
DOI: 10.4236/am.2010.12013                

Abstract

The bondage number of a nonempty graph G is the cardinality of a smallest set of edges whose removal from G results in a graph a domination number greater than the domination number of G. In this paper, we prove that for a 1-planar graph G.

Keywords

Domination Number, Bondage number, 1-Planar Graph, Combinatorial Problem

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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