A LINEAR-TIME ALGORITHM FOR THE RESTRICTED PAIRED-DOMINATION PROBLEM IN COGRAPHS

Let G = (V, E) be a graph without isolated vertices A matching in G 2,5 a set of independent edges in G A perfect matching M in G is a matching such that every vertex of G is incident to an edge of M A set S subset of V is a paired-dominating set of G if every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S, and if the subgraph induced by S contains a perfect matching The paired-domination problem is to find a paired-dominating set of G with minimum cardinality This paper introduces a generalization of the paired-domination problem, namely, the restricted paired domination problem, where some vertices are restricted so as to be in paired dominating sets Further, possible applications are also presented We then present a linear-time constructive algorithm to solve the restricted paired domination problem in cographs