On Efficient Dominating Sets in Simplicial Graphs

Rommel Barbosa1, Peter Slater2
1 Instituto de Informatica – UFG Goiania – GO, Brazil
2Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science University of Alabama, Huntsville, 35899, USA

Abstract

Determining whether or not a graph has an efficient dominating set (equivalently, a perfect code) is an NP-complete problem. Here we present a polynomial time algorithm to decide if a given simplicial graph has an efficient dominating set. However, the efficient domination number decision problem is NP-complete for simplicial graphs.

Keywords: Dominating sets; Efficient domination number; Simplicial graphs; Computational complexity.