
The Roman bondage number of a digraph
Author(s) -
Seyed Mahmoud Sheikholeslami,
Nasrin Dehgardi,
Lutz Volkmann,
Dirk Meierling
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
tamkang journal of mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.324
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 0049-2930
pISSN - 2073-9826
DOI - 10.5556/j.tkjm.47.2016.2100
Subject(s) - digraph , combinatorics , mathematics , domination analysis , cardinality (data modeling) , vertex (graph theory) , discrete mathematics , graph , computer science , data mining
Let $D=(V,A)$ be a finite and simple digraph. A Roman dominating function on $D$ is a labeling $f:V (D)\rightarrow \{0, 1, 2\}$ such that every vertex with label 0 has an in-neighbor with label 2. The weight of an RDF $f$ is the value $\omega(f)=\sum_{v\in V}f (v)$. The minimum weight of a Roman dominating function on a digraph $D$ is called the Roman domination number, denoted by $\gamma_{R}(D)$. The Roman bondage number $b_{R}(D)$ of a digraph $D$ with maximum out-degree at least two is the minimum cardinality of all sets $A'\subseteq A$ for which $\gamma_{R}(D-A')>\gamma_R(D)$. In this paper, we initiate the study of the Roman bondage number of a digraph. We determine the Roman bondage number in several classes of digraphs and give some sharp bounds.