# On the super domination number of graphs

Document Type : Original paper

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1 Universitat Rovira i Virgili

2 Texas A&amp;M University

Abstract

The open neighborhood of a vertex $v$ of a graph $G$ is the set $N(v)$ consisting of all vertices adjacent to $v$ in $G$. For $D\subseteq V(G)$, we define $\overline{D}=V(G)\setminus D$. A set $D\subseteq V(G)$ is called a super dominating set of $G$ if for every vertex $u\in \overline{D}$, there exists $v\in D$ such that  $N(v)\cap \overline{D}=\{u\}$. The super domination number of $G$ is the minimum cardinality among all super dominating sets of $G$. In this paper, we obtain closed formulas and tight bounds for the super domination number of $G$ in terms of several invariants of $G$. We also obtain results on the super domination number of corona product graphs and Cartesian product graphs.

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