Efficient Dominating Sets in Spanning Trees

Anthony E. Barkauskas1
1Mathematics Department University of Wisconsin — La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601

Abstract

An efficient dominating set \(S\) for a graph \(G\) is a set of vertices such that every vertex in \(G\) is in the closed neighborhood of exactly one vertex in \(S\). If \(G\) is connected and has no vertices of degree one, then \(G\) has a spanning tree which has an efficient dominating set. An \(O(n)\) algorithm for finding such a spanning tree and its efficient dominating set is given.