On Minimal Connected Dominating Sets

L. Arseneau1, A. Finbow1, B. Hartnell1, A. Hynick1, D. MacLean1, L. O’Sullivan1
1Department of Mathematics and Computing Science Saint Mary’s University Halifax, NS B3H 3C3 Canada

Abstract

A connected dominating set is a dominating set \(S\) with the additional property that the subgraph induced by \(S\) is connected. We are interested in the collection C of graphs in which every minimal connected dominating set is of one size.
Trees, for instance, clearly belong to this collection. A partial characterization will be discussed; in particular, we determine those graphs which have the property that all spanning trees have the same number of leaves. It is noted that membership in this sub-collection of C can be determined in polynomial time.