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				<PublisherName>Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University</PublisherName>
				<JournalTitle>Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization</JournalTitle>
				<Issn>2538-2128</Issn>
				<Volume></Volume>
				<Issue>Articles in Press</Issue>
				<PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
					<Year>2025</Year>
					<Month>03</Month>
					<Day>08</Day>
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<ArticleTitle>Maker-Breaker domination game on Cartesian products of graphs</ArticleTitle>
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			<ELocationID EIdType="pii">14917</ELocationID>
			
<ELocationID EIdType="doi">10.22049/cco.2025.29866.2198</ELocationID>
			
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					<FirstName>Pakanun</FirstName>
					<LastName>Dokyeesun</LastName>
<Affiliation>Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia</Affiliation>

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				<PubDate PubStatus="received">
					<Year>2024</Year>
					<Month>07</Month>
					<Day>08</Day>
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		<Abstract>The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, called Dominator and Staller.  They alternately select an unplayed vertex in $G$. Dominator wins the game if he forms a dominating set while Staller wins the game if she claims all vertices from a closed neighborhood of a vertex.  The game is called D-game if Dominator starts the game and it is an \emph{S-game} when Staller starts the game.  If Dominator is the winner in the D-game (or the S-game), then $\gamma_{MB}(G)$ (or $\gamma_{MB}^{\prime}(G)$) is defined by the minimum number of moves of Dominator to win the game under any strategy of Staller.  Analogously, when Staller is the winner, $\gamma_{SMB}(G)$ and $\gamma_{SMB}^{\prime}(G)$ can be defined in the same way.  We determine the winner of the game on the Cartesian product of paths, stars, and complete bipartite graphs, and how fast the winner wins. We prove that Dominator is the winner on $P_m \square P_n$ in both the D-game and the S-game, and $\gamma_{MB}(P_m \square P_n)$ and $\gamma_{MB}^{\prime}(P_m \square P_n)$ are determined when $m=3$ and $3 \le n \le 5$. Dominator also wins on $G \square H$ in both games if $G$ and $H$ admit nontrivial path covers. Furthermore, we establish the winner in the D-game and the S-game on $K_{m,n} \square K_{m&#039;,n&#039;}$ for every positive integers $m, m&#039;,n,n&#039;$.  We prove the exact formulas for $\gamma_{MB}(G)$, $\gamma_{MB}^{\prime}(G)$, $\gamma_{SMB}(G)$, and $\gamma_{SMB}^{\prime}(G)$ where $G$ is a product of stars.</Abstract>
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