Coloring and Domination of Vertices in Triangle-free Graphs

Ronald Dutton 1
1Department of Computer Science University of Central Florida, Orlando FL 32816

Abstract

Any dominating set of vertices in a triangle-free graph can be used to specify a graph coloring with at most one color class more than the number of vertices in the dominating set. This bound is sharp for many graphs. Properties of graphs for which this bound is achieved are presented.

Keywords: Triangle-free graphs, Chromatic number, Domination number, Extremal graphs.