Trees with Unique Minimum Paired-Dominating Sets

Mustapha Chellali1, Teresa W.Haynes2
1Department of Mathematics University of Blida B.P. 270, Ouled Yaich, Blida, Algeria
2Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN 37614 USA

Abstract

A paired-dominating set of a graph \(G\) is a dominating set of vertices whose induced subgraph has a perfect matching. We characterize the trees having unique minimum paired-dominating sets.